Nevermind, there was no bug in knotscape, I just forgot to read the tutorial. My apologies.
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:14:39 AM UTC-5, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On 2014-03-05, Jason Suagee <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > > > I attempted to get knotscape working, but the program hung when I > clicked > > on one of the menu buttons (this might be an issue with Tcl or Tk). I > was > > able to check out the link drawing utility linkscape, so I have a good > idea > > of how that works. Since knotscape hung I don't know how it plots a > knot, > > is it a 3D representation (similar to that of say Mathematica). In order > to > > get knotscape to work with my linux distro I would probably have to > > downgrade Tcl and Tk to an older version, which I don't particularly > want > > to get into right now. > > Would you mind providing more details on what exactly goes wrong, with > Tcl/Tk vesrions involved? (perhaps by opneing an issue on the github > repo https://github.com/dimpase/knotscap) > > [...] > > > > While I had originally conceived of something 2D, Alex gave me the > > impression that what he would like would be more useful. So I thought a > bit > > about how his idea might be made to work: > > > > > > It would be pretty hard to do. You could plot the knot using OpenGL, or > > WebGL since most people use Sage through the notebook interface which > runs > > on a browser. > > nowadays these things are normally done using higher level interfaces to > WebGL, > such as tree.js > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-gsoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-gsoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
