On May 20, 9:21 pm, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One thing that might work for you, if you have some interest in it, is
> adding either more native polyhedral functionality to Sage, or improve
> the interface to the polymake package. I am actively working on those
> things, but my time is quite limited and it would be good to have more
> people working on these things.
I will definitely take a look at it.
> I think you were asking on sage-devel
> irc recently about voronoi cells - it would be cool if you could
> either write something to do that or make polymake's voronoi functions
> accessible through sage. I don't think that requires a huge amount of
> background.
You're quite right: that was me ("muraii" on IRC). I'm not quite
sophisticated enough to be able to determine which maps best to my
skillset, but I don't think coding something (with the wealth of
published algorithms) or working on making the existing functions
accessible would be beyond some reasonable extension of it. That is,
sounds exactly like the sort of thing I was asking about: accessible,
but challenging.
> I've been planning on adding a native Schlegel diagram function to
> polyhedra.py, but if you feel like working on that I have plenty of
> other projects to do and I could give you some help on it.
My first order of priority is to become familiar with Python and
SAGE. I'm already familiar with programming (principally VBA and some
very little C++), so it's not quite the learning curve of a complete
neophyte. I think I can ramp up enough facility to start working on
one of these projects, and then learning as I go. I would very
greatly appreciate a little help, though I would expect to resort to
asking for it as sparingly as possible.
Thanks for the response. Now, cracking the book and opening Bluefish
(as a coding environment).
Daniel /\ Muraii
> On May 20, 8:25 am, Daniel Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello, folks,
>
> > I've been a fan of SAGE for a while, but haven't taken the time to put
> > it to any good use. I've also been taken slightly aback at the pace
> > of development; it's a wonder to behold.
>
> > I'm taking the summer to pick up Python, dig into SAGE (has it
> > officially become "Sage" yet?), and have an ambition to parlay a
> > contribution to the project into a capstone project. Obviously, once
> > I start using SAGE, I might find areas for further development; but I
> > thought I'd send a note to the developers to see if there are places
> > of particular development need or interest.
>
> > My skillset is a constraint, of course. While I'm not new to
> > programming, I am new to Python; and, as I mentioned, I haven't really
> > done anything with SAGE yet. There is also the point that I'm only
> > now finishing courses in introductory analysis. An additional aim
> > over the summer is to pace myself through "Baby Rudin," so that might
> > provide some additional maturity to temper my contribution.
>
> > All of that too-wordily stated, are there areas for development that
> > would lend themselves to ambitious-yet-green (mathematically so; if
> > it's relevant, I'm not of typical undergraduate age nor experience)
> > undergraduates? I've seen posts, especially in sage-edu, about some
> > of the UI and other "outreach"; while also of interest, my primary
> > focus will be on the intersection of mathematics (analysis/advanced
> > calculus, maybe working with B-splines/NURBS?) and computation.
>
> > Thanks in advance for any pointers you can provide. If there are
> > existing development threads to which I might more readily contribute,
> > rather than creating my own subproject, that would be wonderful, too.
> > I'm looking forward to collaboration and contribution within the
> > mathematical community.
>
> > Daniel Black
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