On Jan 18, 2008 4:54 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> 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?
Yep. Here are docs
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/wiki/PlottingModule
Ondrej
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