Is there an easy way to draw infinite planes in Sage, given, say, the normal vector and a point on the plane? Of course, you can draw them using parametric_plot3d, but that requires me specifying a range, etc. It also seems like it wouldn't be terribly efficient, since the infinite plane could be represented with a jmol plane primitive or a Tachyon plane primitive, which is presumably more efficient than a bunch of triangles. It seems like it would be handy to have a primitive for an infinite plane.
I'm posting to sage-devel because I suspect there is not a primitive for an infinite plane. I imagine that such a primitive would look something like: plane(normal, point=(0,0,0)) If it was drawn by itself, it would pick some default bounding box, centered around the point. If it wasn't drawn by itself, it would just fit itself inside of whatever the current bounding box for everything else was. Or maybe it would still specify a bounding box around the point, since that is likely to be a point of interest to the viewers, but the plane would grow to fill the entire bounding box constructed in a composite graphic. Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
