Are you using sage 4.1? Unfortunately the tachyon interface got broken in that release, but there is a patch at
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6542 which will fix this in 4.1.1. -Marshall Hampton On Jul 16, 4:36 pm, Marcello Seri <marcello.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm learning to use SAGE because I think it would be nice to teach to > my students how to use it. I was playing with the examples in > > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/plot/plot3d/tachyon.html#s... > > but none of them showed the picture. I tried to see what was happening > and I've found that all the examples both in my laptop and in the > sagenb.org environment give the same error (see the end of this mail) > > How can I correct this problem? > > Thanks, > Marcello Seri > > t.show(verbose=1) output: > > tachyon /home/worksheet/.sage//temp/sagenb/32071//tmp_1.dat -format > PNG > -o sage0.png ; rm -f > "/home/worksheet/.sage//temp/sagenb/32071//tmp_1.dat" > Tachyon Parallel/Multiprocessor Ray Tracer Version 0.98 > Copyright 1994-2007, John E. Stone <jo...@megapixel.com> > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Parse Error: > Encountered a syntax error in file > /home/worksheet/.sage//temp/sagenb/32071//tmp_1.dat > Expected to find VIEWDIR > Actually found: ne > Error occured at or prior to file offset 209, line 11 > Error position is only approximate, but should be close > > Parse Error: > Encountered a syntax error in file > /home/worksheet/.sage//temp/sagenb/32071//tmp_1.dat > Expected to find UPDIR > Actually found: viewdir > Error occured at or prior to file offset 231, line 12 > Error position is only approximate, but should be close > > Parser failed due to an input file syntax error. > Aborting render. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
