Hi all I hope you didn't mind me highlighting your design David :) I liked it even though I didn't understand it. I know it's frivolous but if any of you do have any submissions then it would be great.
Funnily enough, this Christmas whimsy of mine highlighted one issue of closed source mathematical applications that would be (at least partially) solved with an open-source package. I found a nice animation that someone had written in Maple 5 http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=423 However, it doesn't run in modern versions of Maple and it is probably rather difficult to get hold of a copy of Maple 5. This is not very serious with it being a Christmas animation but if it formed the basis of some research then it would be a problem for future generations. I note that SAGE includes full source code for every version ever released so if someone writes code that only works on a particular version of SAGE then I have a fighting chance of getting it to run. Best Wishes, Mike On 1 Dec, 11:36, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 1, 2:47 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > That p-adic one is actually my design! Here is another > > one:http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/wdj/greeting.jpg > > It's a Barnsley fractal I programmed in C long ago, though I've lost the > > code. > > I'll try to recreate it in Sage. > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Fromhttp://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=395featuringsome Sage code > > > for a card, and a mathematica snowflake, ... > > > > """ > > > You[r] task is to design a Christmas message with a mathematical theme > > > using any mathematical system or programming language of your choice. > > > Your design must be generated algorithmically (so you can't design it > > > in Photoshop and import it into Mathematica for example) and it must > > > include source code. Ideally, you should include a quick explanation > > > of the mathematics you featured in your design. > > > """ > > Very nice. We should definitely encourage people to participate and > get them to donate their Sage code to expand the gallery we have for > Sage :) > > > > greetings Harald > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
