On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:36 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:39 PM, mhampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> OK, I added a tar file of the directory in my home folder. >> >> -M. Hampton > > It looks very amazing with all the animations. Wow. I wish Sage more > natively supported > using tachyon to create animations like that. > > I put a pdf of the presentation here, since I think it's not pointless > to look at that. Of course, none of the animations work with the pdf: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/tmp/ams2009mhampton.pdf
Thanks! I've posted that, and the others I've received so far, to http://wiki.sagemath.org/ams-sage and http://wiki.sagemath.org/maa-sage > >> >> On Jan 11, 6:26 pm, "Timothy Clemans" <timothy.clem...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I'm on a Mac, but when I click the link I just see a bunch of a files. >>> Could you post a tar file? >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM, mhampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > My presentation was done in Keynote, and it would be pretty pointless >>> > to look at a pdf. I did put the Keynote folder up at: >>> >>> >http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhampton/ams2009mhampton.key/ >>> >>> > (On OS.X this folder will appear as a file.) If you don't have >>> > Keynote, you can still individually look at the images and movies. >>> > The movies (.mov and .mp4 files) are probably the most interesting >>> > part. I am hoping to find the time to write some animation how-tos >>> > soon. >>> >>> > Marshall >>> >>> > On Jan 8, 9:52 pm, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >> On Jan 8, 7:41 pm, "David Joyner" <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >> > Hi: >>> >>> >> Hi David, >>> >>> >> > I just posted more pics >>> >> > tohttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/sagedays/ams2009/images.html >>> >>> >> > I think Sage gained a lot of publicity this year both by being at >>> >> > the booth but also having an MAA panel discussion and an AMS session. >>> >> > The panel discussion was good to be able to meet others in the >>> >> > teaching community. I think this is related to Sage development because >>> >> > projects like the educational open source software webworks has a >>> >> > funding model which seems to be successful. I think Karl Crisman said >>> >> > he >>> >> > would try to follow up on that. >>> >>> >> Cool. >>> >>> >> > A few people I met at the booth said they were interested in Sage >>> >> > development >>> >> > but more stopped by saying that either they or their students could >>> >> > not afford >>> >> > Maple or Mma and was looking into a cheaper quality alternative. The >>> >> > collaroration >>> >> > possibilities of the Sage server was a strong "selling point" for >>> >> > smaller schools >>> >> > which could load sage on a webserver. >>> >>> >> > There were some really good talks at the Sage session. For example, >>> >> > Marshall's talk had amazing graphics and Robert Miller's talk was very >>> >> > well attended >>> >> > (with maybe twice as many people in the audience as some of the >>> >> > others). >>> >> > I thought the quality overall was great, but I'm very partial to such >>> >> > topics of course. >>> >>> >> Could you get the various presentation and put them up on the wiki >>> >> page? I would certainly like to read some of them. >>> >>> >> > The general message I got from many was that more written material >>> >> > on Sage in use would be welcomed, especially books. I was touched by >>> >> > one guy >>> >> > who explained to me that his students were very poor (waitresses, for >>> >> > example) >>> >> > who cannot afford calculus texts and commercial math programs. The >>> >> > point >>> >> > he was implicitly making was that by offering software and >>> >> > documentation for >>> >> > free we are actually improving the quality of such peoples' lives in a >>> >> > real way. >>> >>> >> +1 >>> >>> >> > - David Joyner >>> >>> >> Cheers, >>> >>> >> Michael >> > >> > > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
