On 5/29/07, Jason Grout <> wrote: > I noticed that the topic of plots in sage has come up recently in > mailing lists. Two options that I've used that I didn't see mentioned > anywhere are listed below. These don't have python bindings, but may be > interesting to consider. Then again, these options may not be suitable > for inclusion in SAGE or may have been eclipsed already by other > software. Anyways, I throw them on the table in case no one has heard > of them or looked at them.
Thanks. We are looking very hard for good solutions, wherever they may come from. > * GLE (http://glx.sourceforge.net/) (BSD license) That is almost all 2d graphics and seems to only do very rudimentary 3d graphics. SAGE already has excellent 2d graphics support via matplotlib. > * Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/) (GPL) > Asymptote particularly might be interesting if you eventually want to do > diagrams (2d or 3d) in SAGE. This Asymptote program is absolutely fascinating!! I've never heard of it. I'm extremely excited. Thanks for making me aware of this. I really like the sound of this "Asymptote is a powerful script-based vector graphics language for technical drawings, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text." > Also, it might be interesting to see if JavaView > (http://www.javaview.de/) can be released under GPL or if its license is > suitable already and use that to create rotateable 3d graphics in the > notebook interface. Functionality-wise JavaView is basically what I wish we could do if several students put in a year of hard work. Unfortunately it looks to me like it is a *very* old fashioned closed source project, with no more to offer SAGE than Maple or Mathematica have to offer SAGE. > If not JavaView, are there other 3d viewing java > applets? Every time we've done extensive searches on this, the answer has always been that there are several Java applets for displaying 3d mathematical or technical objects, but they are all closed source. There's nothing at all of any value that's open source along these lines. I would -- of course -- *love* to be proved wrong, and of course new great open source software pops up all the time. -- 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
