Thanks! Both suggestions worked. However, documentation brought up by
tab-completion did not mention figsize or aspect_ratio (tab-completion
for show() does mention figsize). The documentation seems to be dated.
Tanveer.
On Nov 4, 2:29 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Tanveer Gani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to resize the Jmol window? plot3d doesn't seem to take
> > a size parameter
>
> You can use the figsize parameter to change the figure size:
>
> var('x,y')
> plot3d(sin(x*y), (x,-pi, pi), (y,-pi,pi),figsize=3)
>
> This is a parameter for all 3d plotting functions.
>
> > and I couldn't discover any resizing controls on the
> > window even though the Jmol homepage seems to indicate that resizing
> > should be possible.
>
> It should be, and I've written some demo code to do it, but never polished
> it enough to go in sage. It's particularly easy in conjunction with jquery,
> which is included in Sage. But this functionality isn't nicely exposed.
> I.e., it should be that when one draws a 3d plot, then the plot can be
> dynamically
> resized, and this wouldn't be that hard to implement using jquery, but
> nobody has
> done it yet.
>
>
>
> > Also, is there a way to set the aspect ratio? E.g.
>
> > var('t')
> > parametric_plot((sin(t),cos(t)), 0, 2*float(pi))
>
> > produces a very elliptical looking circle.
>
> Use the aspect_ratio option to show:
>
> var('t')
> parametric_plot((sin(t),cos(t)), 0, 2*float(pi)).show(aspect_ratio=1)
>
> Use the aspect_ratio or frame_aspect_ratio options in 3d:
>
> var('x,y')
> show(plot3d(sin(x*y), (x,-pi, pi),
> (y,-pi,pi),figsize=3,frame_aspect_ratio=[1,1,1]))
>
>
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Tanveer.
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
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