On Dec 8, 2007 9:03 AM, pgdoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I told a colleague about sage, wondering if he would see it as a > viable > alternative to matlab for numerical work. This was his response: > > > I don't know SAGE - it looks great. I'm looking forward to trying it once > > things settle down. > > I've used python for a project and it was excellent. I think NumPy has > > become pretty good too. Certainly the multi-dimensional array handling is > > better than matlab. > > Octave is ok too, running the basic matlab commands & plots. > > But with all these packages the problem for me is the inferior plotting > > capabilities. I am waiting for something that can produce professional > > plots with insets, 3d, latex in the labels, etc using code. > > I don't know either sage or matlab well enough to know how wide the > gap is between plotting in > sage and plotting in matlab. Can sage already do this kind of thing?
Sage cannot already easily do that sort of thing out of the box. But it's also now not far off because of all the hard work that Enthought et al., VTK, etc. have been putting into exactly this problem for Python: http://enthought.com/ and http://www.vtk.org/ William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
