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 !),
I did, glad you are using it ... I also wanted to let you know that you can do a ton of matlab-like plotting because Sage comes with matplotlib ( http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ ), which is designed to look exactly like matlab. Alex > 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? > 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.) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
