Ok so I'm doing a project on visualization of some financial stuff in java, the main objective is to take some input from the stock market, run it through a few equations and then plot the result as a 3D plot. I have almost everything done BUT the visualization (which is the most important I guess).
At first I was thinking about using java3d, but I'm running short on time and I don't really have the time to learn it. Is there any really simple library for visualizing 3D stuff in java (I need stuff like zooming, rotating etc.).
I found jmathtools (which looked perfect) but for some reason it doest want to compile.
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I try to make a summary and show a simple and effective way for creating plots (2d and 3d)
- JFreeChart is a great tool but there are not 3d charts.
- jzy3d can create realy amazing 3d charts, but you need third-party libraries and especially native platform-dependant libs, because it uses JOGL. I have a Mac with Snow Leopard (64bit) and there realy some terrible issues (I could not solve it). I think SWT+64 bit Mac OS X is the problem.
- JMathTools is a smaller tool than the others, but the performance is bad with big datasets.
Surface Plotter is a realy nice tool, there are many 3d options and it don't uses JOGL or anything like this.
In My Alternative, I use a nice, user-friendly Java API (JavaPlot) which based on Gnuplot. In my example on github I add a mouse motion listener to a JPanel for interactive rotating a 3d chart. When you have Gnuplot experience, you can use the power of Gnuplot in any Java application.