Re: [sage-support] Re: show3d does not show (on a mac)

2009-12-29 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:35 AM, kcrisman wrote: > So this wasn't caught by the current doctests (since both return > nothing to the command line). That is not why this 3d plotting on the command line bug wasn't caught. None of the doctests would have even run jmol.When doing 3d plotting in

[sage-support] Re: show3d does not show (on a mac)

2009-12-29 Thread kcrisman
So this wasn't caught by the current doctests (since both return nothing to the command line). Is there a way for doctests to check that Jmol actually starts, or how do they deal with things like that? It would be a shame for something similar to happen in the future, especially on an otherwise fa

Re: [sage-support] Re: show3d does not show (on a mac)

2009-12-28 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Chris Godsil wrote: >> Under sage-4.2, the command P.show3d() works, giving a jmol drawing. >> From what a very quick look >> revealed, the result of P.=show3d? is the same under sage 4.2 and 4.3. >> >> I am

Re: [sage-support] Re: show3d does not show (on a mac)

2009-12-28 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Chris Godsil wrote: > Under sage-4.2, the command P.show3d() works, giving a jmol drawing. > From what a very quick look > revealed, the result of P.=show3d? is the same under sage 4.2 and 4.3. > > I am reporting this chiefly as a data point. Thanks. I've created

[sage-support] Re: show3d does not show (on a mac)

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Godsil
Under sage-4.2, the command P.show3d() works, giving a jmol drawing. >From what a very quick look revealed, the result of P.=show3d? is the same under sage 4.2 and 4.3. I am reporting this chiefly as a data point. Thsnks Chris On Dec 28, 11:33 am, kcrisman wrote: > It seems that this is poor do

[sage-support] Re: show3d does not show (on a mac)

2009-12-28 Thread kcrisman
> > It seems that this is poor documentation at work. > > > sage: P.show3d(engine='tachyon') > > > works fine, but it isn't obvious from > > Wow, "engine"?  That doesn't seem consistent! > Yeah, it only seems to show up with .show3d() on graphs, in graphs/ graph.py - not plot3d, show3d. Of course,

[sage-support] Re: show3d does not show (on a mac)

2009-12-28 Thread Jason Grout
kcrisman wrote: > It seems that this is poor documentation at work. > > sage: P.show3d(engine='tachyon') > > works fine, but it isn't obvious from > Wow, "engine"? That doesn't seem consistent! From the documentation for plot3d(...).show?, it's "viewer" there. - ``viewer`` - s

[sage-support] Re: show3d does not show (on a mac)

2009-12-28 Thread kcrisman
It seems that this is poor documentation at work. sage: P.show3d(engine='tachyon') works fine, but it isn't obvious from sage: P.show3d? that one has to specify this. Apparently jmol isn't rendering this, at least not on Macs. Someone more knowledgeable about Jmol will hopefully reply with mo