On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > animate does not currently support 3D. There are quite a few possible > solutions to this, but none have been completely implemented yet. > > One option is to install ffmpeg, and use it to animate individual > frames produced by Tachyon. This is how I am currently making 3D > animations with Sage. However, its not clear that ffmpeg is > completely free of patent issues, so it probably won't get in to Sage > as a standard component ever. It might be possible to use just the > theora or dirac codecs but I don't have much experience with them.
You could also make 3d animated GIF's. It's old school 1990's, but it would at least work. I'm totally amazed I still haven't made this work with 3d plots yet... William > > A more promising option for the notebook is use a html/javascript > solution. A first step would be to make 2D animations that way, which > was attempted in the following ticket: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1483 > > Unfortunately I stalled in the review process for that, hopefully > someone will breathe some life in it soon. As browsers continue to > evolve and javascript implementations improve this will probably be > the best solution. > > -Marshall Hampton > > On Oct 20, 8:33 pm, QuantumDream <m.cohomol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In 2d the following code works fine >> ================================================ >> a = animate([point([k,k^2], pointsize=50, rgbcolor='red') for k in >> srange(-1,2,0.5)], xmin=-2, xmax=2, ymin=-1, ymax=5) >> a.show() >> ================================================= >> >> Now if I try to do something like: >> ================================================== >> a = animate([point([k,k^2,-k], pointsize=50, rgbcolor='red') for k in >> srange(-1,2,0.5)]) >> a.show() >> ================================================== >> >> I get errors that the Point object is not callable. >> >> Any ideas how to resolve this? >> >> Thanks, >> -M. > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
