On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 10:10 PM Fernando Gouvea <fqgou...@colby.edu> wrote:
>
> The whole point of this is to show the behavior of the curve near infinity,
> so changing the limits is not an option.
just paste together a number of rectangles where (u,v) stay inside the
unit circle.
(yes, this would need writing a loop, ideally)
>
> Fernando
>
> On 3/3/2020 4:15 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 8:20 PM Fernando Gouvea <fqgou...@colby.edu> wrote:
>
> Here's what I ended up trying, with r=3:
>
> var('x y u v')
> x=u*sqrt(9/(1-u^2-v^2))
> y=v*sqrt(9/(1-u^2-v^2))
> implicit_plot(y^2-x^3+x==0,(u,-1,1),(v,-1,1))
>
> That gives an error:
>
> /opt/sagemath-8.9/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/ext/interpreters/wrapper_rdf.pyx
> in sage.ext.interpreters.wrapper_rdf.Wrapper_rdf.__call__
> (build/cythonized/sage/ext/interpreters/wrapper_rdf.c:2237)()
> 74 for i from 0 <= i < len(args):
> 75 self._args[i] = args[i]
> ---> 76 return self._domain(interp_rdf(c_args
> 77 , self._constants
> 78 , self._py_constants
>
> ValueError: negative number to a fractional power not real
>
> Is there some way to tell implicit_plot to stay inside u^2+v^2\leq 1? Or to
> ignore complex values?
>
> I'd just change the limits of u and v to make the rectangle of the
> values you plot in, anyway,
> to well stay inside the unit circle.
>
> The equivalent code seems to give the correct graph in Mathematica.
>
> Fernando
>
> On 2/29/2020 5:29 PM, Fernando Gouvea wrote:
>
> Some years ago in a book review, David Roberts had the idea of plotting an
> algebraic curve using the transformation (u,v) = (x,y)/(r2 + x2 + y2)1/2,
> which transforms the plane into a circle and makes it easy to visualize the
> projective completion of the curve. You can see some of his plots at
> https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/rational-algebraic-curves-a-computer-algebra-approach
>
> I’d love to do this kind of plot for my students. Can anyone offer help on
> how to do it with Sage? (Of course the dream scenario would be to add this
> option to the plot method for curves...)
>
> I’ve been using implicit_plot for most of my examples, which seems to be
> equivalent of using C.plot() when C is a curve.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fernando
>
>
>
>
>
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