[PLUG] looking for a 3d surface plotting program (besides gnuplot)

[American Citizen]

I actually have been forced to use matplotlib and it is sufficient but 
much slower than gnuplot for the same amount of data processing for a 
graphics image.

> owner at localhost:~/FAF> time python plot-hour.py day175.hr24.tukey.log.dft
> hour.png
>
> real    7m33.299s
> user    5m28.269s
> sys     0m2.773s
>
> owner at localhost:~/FAF> time gnuplot day192.hr17.tukey.log.plt
>
> real    0m3.487s
> user    0m1.902s
> sys     0m0.099s
>
> 453.299 seconds versus 3.487 seconds.. gnuplot is MUCH faster.
>
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On 8/11/23 17:01, briand at pounceofcats.com wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:34:30 -0700
> American Citizen <website.reader3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am working with the NASPMON project (see
>> https://www.ig.cas.cz/en/naspmon-project-website/) on an original
>> research project pertaining to seismic detection of underground magma
>> movement prior to a fissure eruption (which Iceland has).
>>
>> I have processed the seismic data, using fftw to run the discrete
>> fourier transforms on the data, in order to find the frequency
>> correlations. Where I am running into a problem is using splot to do the
>> 3d surface map.
>>
>> The data is huge, typically 3600 by 4000 data elements on just one plot
>> (of 425) of an hour's worth of data.
>>
>> Has anyone used 3d surface plotting software (other than gnuplot splot
>> with pm3d) ??
>>
> python/matplotlib ?
>
> it does surprising well even with a large amount of data.
>
>