On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Ted Kosan wrote: > Robert wrote: > >> That is the (lofty!) goal. Take a look at sage/plot/plot3d/* to see a >> start, though much remains to be done. (I am speaking in terms of >> emulating JavaView, not the interactive stuff, though it could >> eventually go there too.) > > As a step towards something like JavaView, I have been experimenting > with JMathTools: > > http://jmathtools.sourceforge.net > > It is not as sophisticated as JavaView, but it has fairly nice 2D and > 3D viewing capabilities and the 3D is lighter weight than Java3D.
Never seen that before, it looks pretty nice, and is BSD licensed. We looked around a lot about a year ago for open-source 3d applets but I never saw this. Can it graph arbitrary 3d shapes/polygons? It doesn't feel OpenGL accelerated, but I could be wrong. > I have JMathTools running in SAGEIDE and I have SAGEIDE communicating > with SAGE using text and pickled objects (via Jython). I am not able > to send SAGE types to the client at this point (only Python types) but > perhaps in the future parts of SAGE can be loaded into the client's > Jython environment to enable this. > > I really like the technique of using Jython in the client because its > like having a subset of SAGE on the client. Users can easily create > GUI widgets with just a few lines of "SAGE" code. Jython can be > included in an applet too. That is a good point. How big is Jython? I wouldn't be surprised if extension types were incompatible with Jython, which would rule out almost all Sage objects. > Anyway, I have studied sage/plot/plot3d/* in the past but now I think > I will study it again to see what kind of SAGE/client communications > mechanism it uses. There is virtually no sage/client communication in this code. Sage spits out a 3d object (in a standard .obj file) and the applet reads it in via a URL. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
