Dear all, After consulting with professors Stein and Pisanski I'm taking this opportunity to draw your attention to project Vega (http://vega.ijp.si/ Htmldoc/vinfo.htm).
Vega is a project lead by prof. Pisanski at Institute for Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics (IMFM: http://www.ijp.si/) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It takes a form of Mathematica package (incl. external programs) specializing mostly but not exclusively in Graph theory. Unfortunately, after a vibrant start in the (early) nineties, Vega lost most of its momentum. Having once participated in the project, and therefore being confident that, in spite of its temporary inactivity, Vega still has a great potential, I suggest that the SAGE team explore the possibility of including (incorporating) it into SAGE. I believe both parties could benefit: Vega could gain momentum again and, at the same time, make a significant contribution to SAGE. Maybe for a start, after cleaning up, it could be bundled with SAGE in it's original Mathematica form and later gradually rewritten in sage/python. The latest version can be downloaded here: http://vega.ijp.si/latest.zip. It contains only Mathematica sources, though. External programs, written in C(++) and Pascal, are currently distributed only in binary form (still MSDOS executables, I'm afraid) but I think obtaining their sources can be arranged. In fact I know it can, since prof. Pisanski offered his help: "If there is anything that we at IMFM could do, please let me know. I can try and get a group of younger colleagues and graduate students who can help as well. I would be very glad if Sage would incorporate a system for dealing with combinatorial and geometric configurations, with maps on surfaces and with abstract polytopes." Best regards, David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
