For 3d plots it's really very similar, but of course they aren't always png's. Calling show with viewer="tachyon" just renders a png, and we're in the above case. Calling show with no options (no viewer="tachyon") uses jmol, which means that a certain file type is output. The notebook then notices that file was created and embeds a java jmol applet configured using that file.
Anyway, I'm just hopefully clarifying how things work now. I'm not actually answering your questions below though. -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org ... That's fine, but after one has displayed 3d plots as well as 2d plots the differences are really striking: the interactive feature of jmol is too good to want to give up for other plots. The OP mentioned mayavi et al and I'd like to add interactive imaging (resp. image processing) using PIL for instance. It would be very nice to be able to display movie clips or real time images during image processing, especially in conjunction with the @interact decorator. I'm just thinking out loud because everyone who ultimately uses jmol plotting is going to want that kind of interactivity in the notebook for other kinds of output. J --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
