On Dec 12, 2007 8:16 AM, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Congratulations on the slashdotting! Amazing how many things get
> verbed nowadays ;)
>
> All this publicity has led some of my colleagues to finally notice
> SAGE, and one had a very nice question about whether it can do
> everything MATLAB does. In particular, there was a real-time viewing
> of the 2-d Ising model he really would like to see in SAGE. And one
> can in fact get everything to work with *much* nicer code, thanks to
> Python (and thanks to whoever wrote matrix_plot !), with the exception
> of the real-time updating part.
>
> The question:
> Is there any way to get SAGE to update a graphic without actually
> creating a new graphic, either in command-line mode or in notebook?
Would creating an animation be a reasonable substitute?
E.g.,
{{{id=119|
a = random_matrix(GF(37),10)*10
b = [a^i for i in [1..37]]
}}}
{{{id=122|
A = animate(matrix_plot(x) for x in b)
}}}
{{{id=120|
show(A)
}}}
> Obviously flooding the screen with graphics is not what he has in
> mind, but I couldn't find any documentation on whether this was
> possible yet.
>
> (On a side note, the graphic aspect of the interface is one of the
> weakest points of SAGE for the undergrad teaching side of things. It
> 'should be' easy as pie to create a 3-d graphic of some bizarre
> function that students can automatically view from all angles or even
> zoom with their mouse.)
I agree. This has to change.
-- William
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