[sage-support] Re: Mathematica 7 coming

[Jason Grout]

William Stein wrote:
>> * Vector and field visualization
> 
> New?  I wonder how?  It seems like they have had this for a long time.

There are lots of cool visualations you could do with vector fields that 
they don't have yet.  For example, see the following (sorry, these are 
from a sage



<h2>From http://ccom.unh.edu/vislab/index.html</h2>
http://ccom.unh.edu/vislab/images/projects/Kat350Vert2.jpg and 
visualizing two different vector flows on top of each other <br/>
<img src="http://ccom.unh.edu/vislab/images/projects/Kat350Vert2.jpg"/>
<img src="http://ccom.unh.edu/vislab/images/projects/TwoLayers.jpg"/>


<h2><a 
href="http://www.drake.edu/artsci/mathcs/pages/people/tmu.htm";>Timothy 
Urness, Drake University in Des Moines</a></h2>
Using texture and color and other things to visualize, especially 
multi-value flow<br/>
<img src="http://facstaff.l3.drake.edu/turness/images2/nat.gif"/>
<img src="http://facstaff.l3.drake.edu/turness/images2/VDA.gif"/>
<img src="http://facstaff.l3.drake.edu/turness/images2/strategies.gif"/>
<img src="http://facstaff.l3.drake.edu/turness/images2/ms.gif"/>

Incidentally, these last images are from Tim Urness, who said he'd be 
willing to donate the code to Sage, if we wanted it.  It's plain C code.





>> * New computable data, including genomic data, protein data, and
>> current and historical weather data
> 
> Cool.   I wonder what the license issues are with making such data
> available?  Can somebody look into this?

Ondrej, you just corresponded with Wolfram about using their Help files. 
  My guess is that they'll have similar policies about other data that 
they've accumulated, though it would still be good to check.

We could probably adapt an interface to noaa.gov to get historical (and 
current!) weather data, if we wanted.  For example, this page contains a 
python script that does it:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102532&page=5

Python already has a Biopython suite (and we have an spkg); See 
http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html#htoc14 for ways to 
access a lot of bioinformatics data.

Also, we could indirectly use the BioConductor packages for R, which may 
provide nice access to bioinformatics data.


> I was expecting something involving the web / ajax in their new
> features.  I'm surprised there isn't anything.


I think that would be more for a release of webMathematica, not 
Mathematica itself.


Jason


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