Ondrej Certik wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
>
> On Jan 18, 2008 11:51 AM, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I've just been playing around with SymPy a bit more lately, and I found that
>> the 3D-Plot implementation is really nice!!!
>> Why isn't that the default plot3D-way for Sage command-line use?
>
> I think the main reason is just that noone has implement it yet. But see
> below.
>
>> I must say that I'm really looking forward to getting mayavi2 into Sage (I
>> know it's already there, but more stable, better supported). Still, I have
>> no experience with mayavi, and I think the symPy (pyglet) plotting
>> capabilities are very good. So in my opinion that should be the default
>> plot3D for command line use.
>> Of course for the notebook, there's been great work around jmol, and I like,
>> but it never worked for me from the command line (btw. java scares the ***
>> out of me).
>
> Speaking only for myself, I don't like java too. But I have a very
> narrow minded opinion here,
> I am sure others will not agree with me completely. I know it's GPL,
> but that's already
> more than a year (isn't it?), but it still isn't in Debian main, for
> some legal or technical problems.
> It is in non-free, so I can still install it with one command (apt-get
> install sun-java5-plugin) and it
> works out of the box in all browsers, but I am very picky, I don't
> want to depend on something
> that isn't in main (that includes Sage too for the moment). I hope
> Sage will get into Debian
> eventually, and java hopefully too. But I don't want to wait 30 years
> for that. :)
>
> So that's why I don't like java, but one shoud use the best tool to do
> the job. So we want 3D graphing
> in the browser that just works and I don't know any better solution
> than the one in Sage.
>
> But as to commandline, I think pyglet is a better solution than jmol,
> because pyglet can be made
> working for almost everyone (unlike java). But I remember that some
> people tried that on this list
> and had some problems too. It does work for me though, even in the old
> Sage 2.8.13. Try this:
>
>
> $ ./sage
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | SAGE Version 2.8.13, Release Date: 2007-11-21 |
> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> sage: from sympy import Plot, symbols
> sage: x, y = symbols("xy")
> sage: Plot(x*y)
> [0]: x*y, 'mode=cartesian'
> sage:
> Exiting SAGE (CPU time 0m1.18s, Wall time 0m16.36s).
Wow, this is great! I never saw this before. It's using OpenGL, right?
Jason
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