Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jim Gibson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:11:30 -0800 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <130120121611307236%jimsgibson@gmail.com> References: <0001HW.CB35ACBC000174A4B038C9DF@news.panix.com> <130120121001312844%jimsgibson@gmail.com> <0001HW.CB35E18A000DD4E9B038C9DF@news.panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ErmSlbW4LGcLBRlU/v34TQh52PaO4yXUDGs9Ux1ztwHaiRAw8m X-Orig-Path: jimsgibson Cancel-Lock: sha1:1cWAci9ZwfzONFb5b9TJnxaAxGM= User-Agent: Thoth/1.9.0 (Mac OS X) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11314 In article <0001HW.CB35E18A000DD4E9B038C9DF@news.panix.com>, Wayne Dernoncourt 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. There are several IDEs for Java under Mac OS X: 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. -- Jim Gibson