Re: Which tool for schematic 2D plotting of 3D data?

[elw@stderr.org]

ggobi, perhaps?

or in R you could load the x/y/z coords and then just plot x ~ y... or 
y~z, or whichever two dimensions you want.

--e


On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Marc Baaden wrote:

> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:23:35 +0200
> From: Marc Baaden <baaden@smplinux.de>
> To: debian-science@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Which tool for schematic 2D plotting of 3D data?
> Resent-Date: Tue,  1 Aug 2006 05:23:47 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: debian-science@lists.debian.org
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to do some 2D visualisation of 3D data and wonder whether
> some tools exist to help me in the task. I have 3D data (atomic coordinates)
> and want to generate some schematic plots in 2D, basically things like
> projections along an axis. For instance I would like to "extract" via a
> 2D plot the contour of my molecule. If I were to do this without tools, I could
> eg try postscript and calculate the arcs that make up this contour. However
> I would rather avoid doing this from scratch.
>
> Is there any utility that can help with such a task?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>  Marc Baaden