3D patches

[David Bateman]

Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>>
>> This appears to result for a 3D view of 2D patches. Actually the 
>> gnuplot "patch" is a filled curve, and may only be viewed in 2D.
>>
>> So the current fix is to either delete the filled contour, or to 
>> delete the 3D surface.
>>
>> The preferred solution (I think) would be to implement patches using 
>> the a 3D surface rather than the 2D filled curve.
>>
>> There was a closely related discussion on another thread, I've cc'd 
>> Martin and David.
>>
>>    
>> https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2009-March/011289.html 
>>
>>
>> Should this be moved to the maintainers list?
>>
>> Ben
>
> I've moved it to the maintainers list.
>
> Ben

What is being discussed in this other thread is only triangular 3D 
patches as anything else in gnuplot is currently not easy to do. This is 
enough for the iso* functions and the trisurf function. However contourf 
needs to have arbitrary patches, so this won't help

D.



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