I'm probably in the minority on this, but I think tachyon being
totally broken in sage-4.1 is bad enough that a sage-4.1.0.1 should be
released as soon as possible with this fixed, not waiting for the
4.1.1 cycle to finish in two weeks.

At the very least, perhaps sagenb can be patched.

-Marshall

On Jul 16, 12:27 pm, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have added a patch that fixes this, available at:
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6542/trac_65...
>
> Since tachyon is currently broken on all systems in sage-4.1, I fixed
> the immediate problem rather than taking the time to improve the
> testing of tachyon.py.  That is now trac ticket #6542:
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6542
>
> If anyone has already started fixing the coverage of the tachyon.py
> files, please let me know so I don't duplicate effort.
>
> -Marshall Hampton
>
> On Jul 16, 6:50 am, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Works OK for me on a mac running 4.0.1, but doesn't work on sagenb
> > running 4.1, so I would guess this is an issue with 4.1.
>
> > I have made this trac ticket 
> > #6542:http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6542
>
> > -Marshall Hampton
>
> > On Jul 16, 5:44 am, Paul Sargent <psa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi all,
>
> > > I've just tried to re-run an old worksheet that uses Tachyon to
> > > raytrace an image. I believe it worked a few versions ago, but on
> > > version 4.1 under Mac OS X (64 bit intel) I no longer get any output.
> > > No error. No image.
>
> > > Is anybody else having this?
>
> > > t6 = Tachyon(camera_center=(0,-4,1), xres = 200, yres = 150, raydepth
> > > = 12, aspectratio=.75, antialiasing = True)
> > > t6.light((0.02,0.012,0.001), 0.01, (1,0,0))
> > > t6.light((0,0,10), 0.01, (0,0,1))
> > > t6.texture('s', color = (.8,1,1), opacity = .9, specular = .95,
> > > diffuse = .3, ambient = 0.05)
> > > t6.texture('p', color = (0,0,1), opacity = 1, specular = .2)
> > > t6.sphere((-1,-.57735,-0.7071),1,'s')
> > > t6.sphere((1,-.57735,-0.7071),1,'s')
> > > t6.sphere((0,1.15465,-0.7071),1,'s')
> > > t6.sphere((0,0,0.9259),1,'s')
> > > t6.plane((0,0,-1.9259),(0,0,1),'p')
> > > t6.show()
>
> > > Paul
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