The package CirclePack (link below) has been recommended to me for possible inclusion in Sage. It is GPL. I have not tried it myself but if any reader is interested perhaps they would like to try it out and report back.
John ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Edward Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12 Feb 2008 08:27 Subject: Circle packing package To: John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, John - you picked a working email address for me. But I normally use [EMAIL PROTECTED] because it won't stop working when I leave Bristol. My UoB account forwards to this one. The circle-packing software is called CirclePack. The webpage is http://www.math.utk.edu/~kens/CirclePack/ I don't recall (from when I installed it) what the license was, and it is not made clear on the webpage. I will write to Ken Stephenson to see whether he is interested in putting his algorithms into Sage. If not, the basic algorithms are fairly straightforward and could be implented on top of a well written graph class. I think the bulk of the work in writing CirclePack must have been to do the GUI. It looks like a standard sort of IDE, so maybe it is built on Eclipse - I don't know. I also don't know much about graphics and plotting in Sage. But I imagine the Sage browser notebooks would make a very good format for organising circle packing experiments. Best wishes, Edward -- John Cremona --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
