[sage-devel] Re: Sage-Enhanced Textbook Demo

2010-01-08 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Rado, Yes, sliders work better. I can then limit the range of the entries in the matrix, thereby bounding the magnitude of the output, thereby bounding the size of the plot, thereby letting me fix its size at the maximum possible, thereby suppressing a rescaling of the graphic on each change

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-Enhanced Textbook Demo

2010-01-07 Thread Rado
I think if the interact looks like the pictures in http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/svd.html it would be snazzier. Also haven't played much with Sage interact so not sure if it is possible, but wouldn't having 4 sliders (one for each entry) be easier if someone really tries to find the