On Oct 6, 2008, at 9:37 AM, William Stein wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:37 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to add Latex equations to Sage plots?
>>
>>
>> In 2d plots, yes, for example
>>
>> sage: P1 = plot(sin(x), (x,-pi,pi))
>> sage: P2 = text("$y=\sin(x),\ -\pi\leq x\leq \pi$", (1.5,4))
>> sage: show(P1+P2)
>>
>>
>> However, I think latex is not (yet?) implemented in text3d.
>
> Yes, there is no latex support for text in 3d plots, and
> in fact nothing planned either. I have no clue how it
> would even be possible.
It would render a png and then use texture mapping. Texture mapping
would be useful for a lot of other things too--jmol supports it (via
voxels) but no one has gotten around to implementing it yet.
- Robert
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