On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Dan Drake wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 at 01:27PM +0100, G. Damm wrote:
is it possible to make stereographic 3d-plots with sagetex?
I'd want to make a beamer-presentation with these plots and want to
help my students see the 3d.
Can Sage make stereographic 3-d plots? If there's a way to get a PNG
image of such a plot out of Sage, then you can get it into your
presentation.
What exactly do you mean by "stereographic"? Do you mean the kinds of
image in which there's two images, from slightly different angles, and
you project it using polarizing filters and the students wear
polarized
glasses? Or those "magic eye" images that look like static unless you
cross your eyes just right?
Sage (via Jmol) can do both. Right click on the applet for a menu. You
can then save the image via the "get image" (or something like that)
button.
My guess, though, is that if you are already using a computer and a
projector, it would be better to use an actual Jmol applet in your
class. Then, instead of a three-dimensional static image, your
students
see something interactive, that can be twisted around, zoomed in and
out, and so on.
That works too. Of course you can zoom and twist a stereographic
image, getting the best of both.
- Robert
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