Under sage-4.2, the command P.show3d() works, giving a jmol drawing.
>From what a very quick look
revealed, the result of P.=show3d? is the same under sage 4.2 and 4.3.

I am reporting this chiefly as a data point.

Thsnks
Chris

On Dec 28, 11:33 am, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that this is poor documentation at work.
>
> sage: P.show3d(engine='tachyon')
>
> works fine, but it isn't obvious from
>
> sage: P.show3d?
>
> that one has to specify this.  Apparently jmol isn't rendering this,
> at least not on Macs.  Someone more knowledgeable about Jmol will
> hopefully reply with more details, but in the meantime the tachyon
> plotter should do at least some of what you want.
>
> - kcrisman
>
> On Dec 28, 10:53 am, Chris Godsil <cgod...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm running OS 10.6.2 a Mac airbook.  I had problems with the binary
> > sage-4.3-osx10.6-intel-64bit-i386-Darwin.dmg, so I downloaded the
> > source and compiled it.  I've found that show3d() does not work.
> > After the commands
>
> >   sage: P = graphs.PetersenGraph()
> >   sage: P.show3d()
>
> > I get the sage prompt and no drawing window.

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