On Dec 8, 2007 6:07 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ >
There is also a new release of Pyx (a python package) that is supposed to do 3d graphics and works very very well with tex: http://pyx.sourceforge.net/ I haven't tried the new version yet. But basically, you have to tell your colleague that "No, unfortunately Sage doesn't do what you need with 3d graphics yet, but that the developers are well aware of this need." 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
