On Dec 30, 2007 11:06 AM, Bob Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > possibly, but let's talk first about what you are really interested in > doing, then talk format. Arrays aren't necessarily the solution. Pmesh > is not what you want for simple planes and objects -- that is for > complex mathematical descriptions of surfaces. Using specific colorings > and shadings sounds like Jmol scripting to me. So I think you are > talking about a mix of objects, some of which are memory/filespace > intensive, such as mathematical surfaces, and some of which are simple > objects.
I only mentioned it *in case* the project went down the road of arrays, not suggesting it did. Since Sage includes numpy and is python based, it would soon have the support for writing this format built in (as it is now part of numpy itself). *If* it were to be a reasonable fit, I mentioned it to prevent possible duplication of work: this has been done only in a branch and on the numpy-dev list, so it would be easy for the sage developers to miss it. I'm not a sage developer (I come from the numpy/scipy end of things) and have only followed the jmol discussion tangentially. It may very well be that an array-based format is not the solution for this problem, and in that case just ignore the comments. Cheers, f --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
