On 5/23/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
I'm not sure what "good rendering" means. Can (for example) a square in 3-space with a specified size, position and orientation be plotted? If so, what is the command? > > 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. This can be done using gnuplot (which does not come with SAGE). I sent an email to the maxima email list and it seems that openmath (which does come with SAGE) cannot save to a file using a plot option. Openmath does have the ability save to a ps file, but apparently only using the mouse. > > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
