OK, I just submitted the proposal (I realized that it was due in only a few hours).
Using the 3d coordinates of the vertices would be fine for exporting to the backend. It makes the job of programming the editor that much easier. Also, to reload a knot from a file all you would have to do is read back the coordinate data. For computation of invariants the backend probably will want a more simplified representation of the knot, but that is easy enough to compute within Sage given the coordinate data. Your right, for inputing a knot from scratch it's good to have something that works like plink. This is really a different kind of thing than the rest of the project idea, which is 3D. I could implement a link drawing tool, but I'm wondering if we could just incorporate some of the plink code into Sage? I looked at the graph_editor code. I did not know that you could just enter the following into a sage notebook input frame: from sage.misc.html import html html( INSERT ANY HTML HERE ) and what you get in the output frame is what you inserted. This will definitely help me to figure out the backend interface. -- 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/d/optout.
