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  • AEB
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    Need advice/suggestion for small project

    Hello, my supervisor has requested that I write a program to display
    2D waves in 3D using Python. Basically I have a time series file that
    has the heights of the wave over time steps, and I want to extrude
    these waves lengthwise so that they appear in a 3D manor. I am not
    very familiar with Python development, could someone point me in a
    good direction, and maybe comment if this is a little to ambitious for
    a first time python user?

    I do have moderate programming experience in other languages (java, c/c
    ++, vb.net).
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    • Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
      #2
      Re: Need advice/suggestion for small project

      On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:47:32 -0700, AEB wrote:
      Hello, my supervisor has requested that I write a program to display 2D
      waves in 3D using Python. Basically I have a time series file that has
      the heights of the wave over time steps, and I want to extrude these
      waves lengthwise so that they appear in a 3D manor. I am not very
      familiar with Python development, could someone point me in a good
      direction, and maybe comment if this is a little to ambitious for a
      first time python user?
      This doesn't sound so much like a Python problem but more a graphics
      programming problem in general and depends on the way you want to display
      the data. OpenGL? Tkinter canvas?
      I do have moderate programming experience in other languages (java, c/c
      ++, vb.net).
      If you are new to Python you should work through the tutorial in the
      documentation. For people with programming experience in other languages
      `Dive into Python` is a recommended free Python text.

      Ciao,
      Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

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        • Scott David Daniels
          #3
          Re: Need advice/suggestion for small project

          AEB wrote:
          Hello, my supervisor has requested that I write a program to display
          2D waves in 3D using Python. Basically I have a time series file that
          has the heights of the wave over time steps, and I want to extrude
          these waves lengthwise so that they appear in a 3D manor. I am not
          very familiar with Python development, could someone point me in a
          good direction, and maybe comment if this is a little to ambitious for
          a first time python user?
          >
          I do have moderate programming experience in other languages (java, c/c
          ++, vb.net).
          You might want to take a look at VPython. It is probably the easiest
          way to get to 3-D in Python.

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