Thanks Timothy!
I hope that people interested in 2d plotting can maybe think about some
of the things Mathematica does that Sage doesn't (listed below), and whether
Sage _should_ do them, and if so, what shape they should take in Sage,
then respond to this thread.
Thanks,
-- William
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Timothy Clemans
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following Mathematica options for the Plot function are
> unsupported in Sage: AxesLabel, AxesOrigin, AxesStyle,
> BaselinePosition, ClippingStyle, ColorFunction, ColorFunctionScaling,
> EvaluationMonitor, Exclusions, ExclusionsStyle, Filling, FillingStyle,
> MaxRecursion, Mesh, MeshFunctions, MeshShading, MeshStyle,
> PerformanceGoal, PlotRangeClipping, RegionFunction, and
> WorkingPercision are available for the Plot function but are
> unsupported in Sage.
>
> Sage has partial support for the Mathematica Plot options Axes,
> PlotRange, and PlotStyle.
>
> The following functionality is available in Mathematica but not in
> Sage and fall under an option already partially supported in Sage.
>
> one can pass a pair of boolean values to the Axes option thus
> generating for example a plot with a x-axis but no y-axis, falls under
> the axes option
> not sure what of PlotRange is implemented in Sage
> part of the confusion is that both Mathematica and Sage use a range
> noted in this example:
> Mathematica: Plot[Sqrt[x],{x,-5,5}]
> Sage: plot(sqrt, -5, 5)
>
> For example, in Mathematica one can use to PlotRange to just show a
> curve where it is real-valued
> the directives EdgeForm, FaceForm, Glow, GrayLevel, PointSize, named
> colors, and Specularity, falls under the PlotStyle option
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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