Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Search
  • Get Qt Extensions
  • Unsolved
Collapse
Brand Logo
  1. Home
  2. Qt Development
  3. General and Desktop
  4. Qt3D vs. matplotlib
Forum Update on Monday, May 27th 2025

Qt3D vs. matplotlib

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General and Desktop
qt3dmatplotlib
3 Posts 2 Posters 1.4k Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • E Offline
    E Offline
    eureka
    wrote on 27 Jan 2016, 20:58 last edited by A Former User
    #1

    I'm a newcomer to Qt and I'm still weighing up how to approach data visualisation.
    So I have no experience with the Qt classes discussed above.

    But I would ask (for my own understanding of pros/cons) .. why not use matplotlib.org for such rendering?

    http://matplotlib.org/

    http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12423601/python-the-simplest-way-to-plot-3d-surface

    You would need to add Python bindings to Qt.
    So far I have installed PyQt 5.5.1 to extend Qt with python apps.

    The question summarised .. when to use Qt native classes vs. external python classes for data visualisation?

    ? 1 Reply Last reply 28 Jan 2016, 10:05
    1
    • E eureka
      27 Jan 2016, 20:58

      I'm a newcomer to Qt and I'm still weighing up how to approach data visualisation.
      So I have no experience with the Qt classes discussed above.

      But I would ask (for my own understanding of pros/cons) .. why not use matplotlib.org for such rendering?

      http://matplotlib.org/

      http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html

      http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12423601/python-the-simplest-way-to-plot-3d-surface

      You would need to add Python bindings to Qt.
      So far I have installed PyQt 5.5.1 to extend Qt with python apps.

      The question summarised .. when to use Qt native classes vs. external python classes for data visualisation?

      ? Offline
      ? Offline
      A Former User
      wrote on 28 Jan 2016, 10:05 last edited by
      #2

      @eureka Hi and welcome to the Qt Forum! I created a new topic for your posting. Please don't hijack other people's threads ;-)

      1 Reply Last reply
      1
      • E Offline
        E Offline
        eureka
        wrote on 28 Jan 2016, 13:22 last edited by
        #3

        Moderator

        I truly thought that I was responding to this question in the "hijacked" thread (see the mesh examples in matplotlib gallery):

        I have code which generates a mesh, i.e., as a N x 3 array of doubles V of the 3D points and another M x 3 array of integers F of the triangles. How can I render this mesh via qt3d (note the mesh is generated and hence not loaded from a file)? As far as I understand I need to create my own QGeometryRenderer, QGeometry, QBuffer, QAttribute.

        So .. pros and cons of Qt3D vs. matplotlib? Where is this discussed?

        1 Reply Last reply
        0

        1/3

        27 Jan 2016, 20:58

        • Login

        • Login or register to search.
        1 out of 3
        • First post
          1/3
          Last post
        0
        • Categories
        • Recent
        • Tags
        • Popular
        • Users
        • Groups
        • Search
        • Get Qt Extensions
        • Unsolved