That's great info. Thanks. A
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:58 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Jul 28, 11:51 am, Alec Battles <alec.batt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry if there's some good reason why this would be redundant, but I >> have an idea. It's a bit scary that you can't simply draw a triangle >> with sage given a set of three coordinates... >> > > You can do that very easily. > > sage: polygon? > Returns either a 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional polygon > depending > on value of points. > > For information regarding additional arguments, see either > polygon2d? or polygon3d?. > > EXAMPLES: > > sage: polygon([(0,0), (1,1), (0,1)]) > sage: polygon([(0,0,1), (1,1,1), (2,0,1)]) > > The original poster was asking about having ONLY side lengths > specified, as far as I can tell. > >> Why doesn't sage make some sort of interface to KIG? It can be >> scripted in python (using pykig.py), and draws geometry very well >> using scripted commands. It would give the program another >> input-output option, as well as bolstering sage's capabilities. I'd >> certainly make great use of it. >> > > The KIG website is not all that helpful, unfortunately - for instance, > the screenshots page is empty. Is the project still very active? > > Geogebra has lots of excellent constructions, and hopefully someday > the Sage-Geogebra interface will be complete. For now, see for > instance http://www.slu.edu/classes/maymk/GeoGebra/SideSideSide.html , > and it is pretty easy to get Geogebra to give you coordinates for > points. > > - kcrisman > > -- > 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 > -- 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
