# QwtPlot3D

## Introduction
QwtPlot3D is not a  program, but a feature-rich Qt/OpenGL-based C++ programming library, providing essentially a  bunch of 3D-widgets for programmers. The library is zlib licensed.

### Features
- Specialized widgets for surfaces, graphs etc.
- Parametric Surfaces
- Lighting (experimental)
- User defined visual objects
- Scaling, rotating, shifting, zooming of data sets and mathematical functions ( see Data Input Topics )
- Interactive mouse and keyboard handling
- Resolution changing on the fly
- Reading from MESH data files :See the 'data' directory and NativeReader documentation for this . You will find example datasets here
- Reading from FEM files
- Flat (2D) labeling
- Wireframe, filled polygons, hidden line
- Floor projections (Isolines, Data)
- Free configurable (labeling, numbering; linear, log or user-defined transformations) and autoscalable axes
- Free color model
- Flat/Gouraud shading
- Color legends
- Pixmap output (all Qt supported formats)
- Vector output (PostScript,  EPS and PDF) via gl2ps

More information can be found at [https://github.com/SciDAVis/qwtplot3d](https://github.com/SciDAVis/qwtplot3d)

## Build

```Shell
git clone https://github.com/SciDAVis/qwtplot3d.git
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/path/where/to/install/qwtplot3d"
make
make install
```