I have been working on a Sage package for the Abelian Sandpile Model: http://people.reed.edu/~davidp/412/
and I have a student that would love to work with me this summer to really polish it up. (A preliminary version of a sandpile applet he wrote is at www.reed.edu/~headb/sandpiles.) It might not be what Google is looking for, though. David On Mar 8, 2:56 pm, Ronan Paixão <ronanpai...@yahoo.com.br> wrote: > > +10 > > > This is why I copied the notebook section as an example from the list > > for 2008. Even though I would expect Google to be interested in funding > > open source implementations of maths, I think it would be better if we > > focus on the computer science/engineering side of things. > > > If we are going ahead with the application, we should try to make the > > ideas list very clear, and add well defined milestones/deliverables for > > the tasks on the list. > > > Cheers, > > > Burcin > > I'd recommend improvements to plotting functions. It's the "face" of > most math software (from a non-mathematician standpoint) and there's > room for improvement. Implementing different axes (like log), fixing > jmol's issues that happen for some people, the mayavi output that's > being worked on by cwitty and Prabhu, generalization to allow plotting > by Pyx, or new 3D output like Blender or Yafray, plotting of new types > that currently don't work like Piecewise functions, etc come to mind. > Also it looks more computer-related than math-related. > > Another idea would be improvements towards the Windows port. The only > problem with that is that it would be less noticeable from a user's > standpoint, since most probably a complete port wouldn't be viable in 3 > months time by a single person. > > I guess the switch to new symbolics and pynac would be more math-related > than desirable by the GSoC program, but maybe transitioning Maxima to > that less-buggy Lisp (which I don't recall which one right now) is also > an idea. > > That's my 3 cents, > > Ronan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
