[vtkusers] matlab surf ability?

[Roman Putanowicz]

Hi,
> In matlab I can send three matrics  (X,Y,Z) to surf and get a surface.
> (...) I am trying to rewrite my Matlab program so that it can be compiled and
> shared with some teacher friends who could use it to help illustrate what
> they are teaching.  
> (...)
> I am just not sure how to do that with vtk.

The most straightforward thing to do in you case is to use package Octaviz.
http://octaviz.sourceforge.net
Octaviz is Octave wrapper for VTK. Octave in turn is very, very similar
to Matlab. http://www.gnu.org/software/octave
Octaviz provides wrappers for VTK classes but the same time
it provides a bunch of high level functions, among them vtk_surf which
does the same as the Matlab surf function.

By using Octaviz you solve both problems: you get the surface and share code.
Porting to Octave shouldn't be difficult (unless you use a specialised
toolbox) and the same time understanding octave code for someone knowing
Matlab is trivial. 

I am using Octaviz on Linux. You can get Octave version for Windows though
I do not know about Octaviz.

If Octaviz is not sufficient you could (but this means making hands 
dirty :) write the respective code in C++ and then make Octave wrapper
either using Octave build-in compiler mkoctfile or using SWIG 
http://www.swig.org.

I hope this helps,
Best regards

Roman
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Institute for Computational Civil Engng (L-5)
Dept. of Civil Engng, Cracow Univ. of Technology
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