I guess I solved my own problem:
show( eval( maxima.eval( "sin(x)" ) ).plot( x, -5, 5 ) )
On May 20, 2:14 pm, jperry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the proper method to plot a Maxima function? Maybe I'm
> misunderstanding the syntax, but something like:
>
> show( maxima("x*sin(x)").plot( x,-5,5 ) )
>
> gives me a graph consisting of axes with "x*sin(x)" printed in the
> center of the graph (no plot).
>
> Using plot2d() works, but I'd prefer not to use Gnuplot since I'm
> using the web-based notebook and my browser can't display EPS files.
>
> I can also use something like:
>
> L = [(x, maxima.eval( "float(sin(%s))"%x )) for x in range(-5,5)]
> show( line(L) )
>
> Is there a simplier way? AFAIK I can't avoid using Maxima because I'm
> using some ODE/Laplace functions that don't exist natively.
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