On 5/23/07, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Surface plots are very important for my sage-teaching plans. > Currently the maxima surface plots don't work for a notebook running > on a different machine (unless there is some way of piping that over > - ?).
Currently unfortunately there is no good support for surface plots in the SAGE notebook. This is a major major gap in SAGE, which hasn't been remedied yet. It is possible to draw nice surface plots in the notebok via Tachyon but this is not very good yet. Some of the SAGE developers last year wrote a lot of code necessary for surface plotting, but we still don't have a good rendering system. NOTE: If you can figure out how to tell maxima to save a plot to a file instead of displaying it, then it will get displayed by the notebook. The notebook has the cool property that it simply automatically displays any .png images that get created as a side-effect of running a command. They have to get created in the working directory of the notebook cell though, and maxima might place the file elsewhere. Anyway, if somebody were to post maxima code that shows how create a graph and save it to a file, then it would probably be easy for me to figure out how to make that plot appear in the notebook. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
