On May 19, 2011, at 14:46 , Kelvin Li wrote:

> Please excuse me for pulling the subject of this discussion back to
> what I think the original post meant...

:-}

> On May 19, 2:47 am, Ari <garon.ari...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>> I am working with sage
>> from the terminal and whenever I use the function plot3d, nothing
>> happens.
> ...
>> Ari
> 
> As far as I know, the usual "jmol" and "canvas3d" rendering engines
> will not work from the command line.

I can't say for sure about 'canvas3d' (the docstring for '.show()' says 
notebook only), but with this

> sage: var('x y')
> sage: a = plot3d(x^2 + y^2, (x, -1, 1), (y, -1, 1))

a.show()

using sage from the command line (shell) does produce a 'jmol' window, with all 
the 3D goodness (at least on Mac OS X).

Justin


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