I don't think there was a deliberate change. Rendering the jmol version requires java, which is an external dependency. There was also a bug in detecting java 10+ which is only fixed in Sage 8.4.beta4. The expected behavior is: If java is not installed or not properly found then the docs fall back to tachyon.
On Friday, September 14, 2018 at 4:09:28 PM UTC+2, Eric Gourgoulhon wrote: > > Hi, > > Between Sage 8.4.beta0 and 8.4.beta2, all 3d plots illustrating the > reference manual, like in this section > <http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/plot3d/sage/plot/plot3d/plot3d.html>, > > have been changed to Tachyon-rendered images. Previously (in particular in > Sage 8.3), they were png images reflecting the Jmol rendering. > Is this a bug or a feature? > Is this is a feature, note that it has the unfortunate effect of not > displaying things as the user will see them if she or he repeats the > command, since Jmol is the default viewer, not Tachyon. For instance, the > axes are loosing all graduation with Tachyon. Moreover some illustrations > are now broken: for instance, the "A 3d plot with a mesh" example of > > http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/plot3d/sage/plot/plot3d/plot3d.html > does no longer show any mesh... > > Best wishes, > > Eric. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
