On Dec 10, 12:00 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
Hi Mike,
> I hope you didn't mind me highlighting your design David :) I liked
> it even though I didn't understand it.
> I know it's frivolous but if any of you do have any submissions then
> it would be great.
It would probably be nice to do an @interact version of the Christmas
card since then one can easily play with all parameters.
> Funnily enough, this Christmas whimsy of mine highlighted one issue of
> closed source mathematical applications that would be (at least
> partially) solved with an open-source package. I found a nice
> animation that someone had written in Maple 5
>
> http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=423
>
> However, it doesn't run in modern versions of Maple and it is probably
> rather difficult to get hold of a copy of Maple 5. This is not very
> serious with it being a Christmas animation but if it formed the basis
> of some research then it would be a problem for future generations. I
> note that SAGE includes full source code for every version ever
> released so if someone writes code that only works on a particular
> version of SAGE then I have a fighting chance of getting it to run.
At least you can take some virtualizer, install an old Linux
distribution that was current back when the Sage version was released
and with a very high probability it will build out of the box.
Building modern Sage releases on older distributions usually works
modulo internal compiler errors while building old Sage releases on
new operating system releases often causes trouble due to the newer
compilers. But in the end I agree that you have a fighting chance to
get the old code to run.
> Best Wishes,
> Mike
Cheers,
Michael
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