>> >Probably 2d and 3d visualization are also at least as important as >> >calculus to the target audience we are talking about. Linear algebra >> >and numerical solving is also extremely important... (thanks mike and >> >robertwb for implementing symbolic matrices for 2.9.1!!!!) >> >> In the Axiom tree distribution is a function called viewalone. >> It is a standalone C program that implements 2D and 3D graphs >> with many features including shading, scaling, rotation, and >> printing the results as postscript files. The program can also >> be called from within Axiom. >> >> To try the viewalone program look for directories with the extension .view >> Invoke viewalone on the directory and you should see a live graph that >> you can manipulate. >> >> This could easily be packaged separately from Axiom as a standalone >> part of Sage.
>That's interesting, I didn't know about it. In Sage there are quite a lot >of programs for 3D things, but I think Robert was talking about using 3D >things from the notebook (from the browser). If you have a copy of the Axiom look at the color plates in the center of the book. These examples (e.g, Tubular Torus knots, complex cube roots, conformal maps, klein bottles, Sierpinsky's minimal surface, Antoine's necklace, Scherk's minimal surface, Ribbon plots) were all done using the code shown on page 691. Very complex objects are created in 30 lines of code. Tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
