Based upon a lot of the comments in recent weeks, improvements in plotting is a good idea. I recommend a canvas matplotlib back end. This would greatly benefit the notebook and would benefit the matplotlib project as well.
Of course, I'd prefer improvements to pynac based integration, limits, and ODEs, but I think the canvas back end has a decent chance of being funded. Cheers, Tim. On Mar 8, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Ronan Paixão wrote: > > >> >> +10 >> >> This is why I copied the notebook section as an example from the list >> for 2008. Even though I would expect Google to be interested in >> funding >> open source implementations of maths, I think it would be better if >> we >> focus on the computer science/engineering side of things. >> >> If we are going ahead with the application, we should try to make the >> ideas list very clear, and add well defined milestones/deliverables >> for >> the tasks on the list. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Burcin > > I'd recommend improvements to plotting functions. It's the "face" of > most math software (from a non-mathematician standpoint) and there's > room for improvement. Implementing different axes (like log), fixing > jmol's issues that happen for some people, the mayavi output that's > being worked on by cwitty and Prabhu, generalization to allow plotting > by Pyx, or new 3D output like Blender or Yafray, plotting of new types > that currently don't work like Piecewise functions, etc come to mind. > Also it looks more computer-related than math-related. > > Another idea would be improvements towards the Windows port. The only > problem with that is that it would be less noticeable from a user's > standpoint, since most probably a complete port wouldn't be viable > in 3 > months time by a single person. > > I guess the switch to new symbolics and pynac would be more math- > related > than desirable by the GSoC program, but maybe transitioning Maxima to > that less-buggy Lisp (which I don't recall which one right now) is > also > an idea. > > That's my 3 cents, > > Ronan > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
