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3D graphs/charts toolkit

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alex zakharov - 24 Sep 2003 18:40 GMT
Hi,

Am definitely a newbie to java 3D so I apologize in advance if the
question sounds ridiculous.

I'm looking to display relatively simple charts in 3D - imagine
something as trivial as plotting velocity with different initial
conditions (e.g. acceleration). Z-axis will have different initial
acceleration while X and Y will be time and velocity respectively.
Assume we have all the data points. So at the end of the day you are
looking at a surface in 3D.

Now, I guess I could use java 3D api to do that. But then again why
reinvent the wheel - there must be 3D toolkits out there that allow me
to customize existing controls. Most of the toolkits I've seen were
pretty rudimentary and had rather weak 3D effects.

Does anybody know of a good 3D chart toolkit? Or am I stuck writing
one from scratch in java 3D api, which is relatively low-level in my
understanding, no?

Much thanks,

Alex
Helge Preuss - 26 Sep 2003 10:06 GMT
> Does anybody know of a good 3D chart toolkit? Or am I stuck writing
> one from scratch in java 3D api, which is relatively low-level in my
> understanding, no?
An old one, but still widely in use in the academic sector at least, is
Gnuplot (www.gnuplot.info). It doesn't make the prettiest images, but
you can get the image you want pretty quick.
Helge


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