IIRC, the ability to easily do text labels is something that is missing right now. It would be great to be able to attach some text to a point (we don't need shadows or anything fancy). We could probably even do this ourselves if there was an easy API to go from 3D point to 2D point in the output.
- Robert On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:40 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have permission from the author of Tachyon to forward his message > below to the Sage list. He's basically interested in whether there is > _anything_ he could do to make Tachyon more useful for Sage. See > below. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: John Stone <jo...@ks.uiuc.edu> > Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:56 PM > Subject: Feedback on Tachyon APIs used by SAGE, etc.. > To: William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> > > > Hi William, > I'm in the process of doing a bunch of updating of the > Tachyon header files and documentation and thought I'd send a > quick ping. I was wondering if the SAGE project wants or needs > anything changed or improved in the Tachyon APIs, since I'm already > doing some significant improvements for other projects. > > I was also curious what portions of the Tachyon APIs are > exposed in SAGE now, and whether it might be time to > update SAGE to be able to take advantage of various new > Tachyon features such as ambient occlusion lighting and > other improvements that may not be exposed in the > current versions SAGE. > > I would also be happy to have a look at your existing > Tachyon code and see if I notice anything that might be added > or improved if you can tell me where to look for it. > > Cheers, > John Stone > > -- > NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 > Email: jo...@ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349 > WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078 > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
