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Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac

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On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:11:30 -0500, Jim Gibson wrote
(in article <130120121611307236%jimsgibson@gmail.com>):

> In article <0001HW.CB35E18A000DD4E9B038C9DF@news.panix.com>, Wayne
> Dernoncourt <wayned@panix.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:01:31 -0500, Jim Gibson wrote
>> (in article <130120121001312844%jimsgibson@gmail.com>):
>> 
> 
>> 
>>> I use a combination of Perl and gnuplot to generate 2D plots from CSV
>>> or text files on a Mac. Since you are coming from Tcl/Tk, maybe picking
>>> up Perl wouldn't be too hard.
>> 
>> It's been 10-12 years since I've used Perl, one of the "potential" 
>> applications is 3D rotation in plotting points from a text file.  Currently 
>> one of the guys at work is using Matlab for that, I was hoping for 
>> something 
>> a little simpler.
>> 
> 
> gnuplot will plot 3D plots from numbers in a text file, if the file is
> formatted appropriately. It can also do rotation of the view point.
> However, it is just for display, and you can't (AFAIK) store the
> resulting rotated points.

The results are just for displaying the points.  I have no clue if/when I'm 
going to deal with surfaces (the Z-axis), the points are physically on 
surfaces and the target users need to be able to identify points on the 
physical surfaces.  I know that this could very well neer happen.  There is a 
guy that had a way to use Maya(?) to produce views with a surface model and 
overlaying the points.  He insisted that he needed more information (a more 
refined surface model, etc.) - using ping pong balls instead of the actual 
shapes would've been fine, that is it's better than what we have. It never 
happened, sigh.

<WRT matrix math, etc.) MATLAB is terrific for lots of things, for other 
things it's overkill.

> There are several IDEs for Java under Mac OS X:

> <http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=java+ide+for+mac+os+x&ie=UTF-8&oe
> =UTF-8>

> One of those might get you started quickly. I haven't used any of them
> under Mac OS, so can't recommend any in particular.

I haven't had the time/inclination to do that over the weekend.  I'll d that 
shortly.  Thanks much.

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Getting started with Java on a Mac Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@panix.com> - 2012-01-13 09:41 -0500
  Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-13 09:04 -0800
  Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-13 10:01 -0800
    Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@panix.com> - 2012-01-13 13:26 -0500
      Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-13 16:11 -0800
        Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@panix.com> - 2012-01-16 13:48 -0500
        Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@panix.com> - 2012-01-16 20:24 -0500
          Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-16 21:20 -0500
            Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@panix.com> - 2012-01-17 05:33 -0500
              Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2012-01-17 11:30 -0800
                Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-17 17:34 -0500
              Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-17 17:32 -0500
            Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-01-19 13:09 +0000
              Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-19 08:35 -0800
                Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-19 19:08 -0500
              Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-19 19:05 -0500
                Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-01-20 21:50 +0000
                Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-20 21:15 -0500
                Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-01-21 17:44 +0000
                Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-21 15:59 -0500
      Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-13 16:43 -0800
    Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2012-01-13 16:58 -0800
      Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-14 22:46 -0500
    Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-13 23:12 -0400
      Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-01-13 20:13 -0800
        Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2012-01-13 20:47 -0800
          Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-01-13 23:16 -0800
          Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2012-01-13 23:56 -0800
          Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-14 11:17 -0800
          Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-14 22:52 -0500
        Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-14 11:00 -0400
          Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-01-14 22:30 -0500
    Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-14 22:45 -0500
  Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-01-13 22:29 -0500

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