Re: [sage-support] Re: sagenb.org server(s)

2011-02-08 Thread Thomas Scofield
I appreciate the efforts that are under way to make sagenb.org more usable en masse. I'll patiently wait for the improvements to take effect. In my ignorance, let me pose a related question. It seems to me the published notebooks are far different entities than those that are "active". Am I

[sage-support] sagenb.org server(s)

2011-02-07 Thread Thomas Scofield
I've spent the last couple of hours frustrated at trying to log in and use notebooks at sagenb.org. I was attempting to do this while teaching a class, and had little to no success between 10:30 and 12:20 EST (U.S.). I had this same experience about a month ago when teaching a different class

Re: [sage-support] maxima broken in notebook on sagenb?

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Scofield
Could this also be the source of my problem? Code like var('x y z t') p1 = parametric_plot3d((x,0,z), (x,-1.2,1.2), (z,-1.2,1.2), color='green', opacity=.65) p2 = parametric_plot3d((x,2-x,z), (x,-1.2,1.2), (z,-1.2,1.2), color='green', opacity=.65) p3 = parametric_plot3d((sin(t), y, cos(t)),

[sage-support] multiple integrals

2010-02-15 Thread Thomas Scofield
Can someone point me to examples/documentation on doing double integrals numerically? That is, say you have to calculate a double integral with integrand f(x,y) for which no closed-form antiderivative (neither in x nor y) exists. Assume my xy-region of integration is rectangular. Is th

Re: [sage-support] Re: cookies and Sage Notebook

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Scofield
I'm getting this message probably close to half the times I try to log into sagenb.org. It is not browser-specific. On my Mac, running OS 10.5.8, it seems it happens in Safari, Firefox, Camino and Chrome. I remove all cookies, set things to accept all cookies, etc. (haven't tried shift

[sage-support] [sage support] understanding functions

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Scofield
Wow! 28+ hours and no one has addressed this question. Do I need to supply more information? Have I just simply asked a really dumb question? Thomas L. Scofield Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics Calvin Co

[sage-support] understanding functions

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Scofield
I should have said a couple more things. First, when integrand evaluates to something other than the zero function (or, at least, to a non-constant function), the original code var('x,y,t') F=vector([x^2,x*y]) r=vector([cos(t), sin(t)]) tstart=0 tend=2*pi integrand = F(x=

[sage-support] understanding functions

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Scofield
I borrowed/adapted the following code for carrying out a line integral from a published notebook var('x,y,t') F=vector([x^2,x*y]) r=vector([cos(t), sin(t)]) tstart=0 tend=2*pi integrand = F(x=r[0], y=r[1])*diff(r,t) As one may observe, integrand is identically 0. The idea

Re: [sage-support] Re: text3d and latex

2010-01-26 Thread Thomas Scofield
To what does "#7872" refer? And is that a reply to O. Lazo, or to my post? On Jan 26, 2010, at 2:56 AM, William Cauchois wrote: Check out #7872, Jason! On Jan 23, 11:59 am, Jason Grout wrote: Oscar Lazo wrote: On 22 ene, 12:56, Thomas Scofield wrote: I have made an i

[sage-support] jmol (was Re: text3d and latex)

2010-01-23 Thread Thomas Scofield
lity? I guess the basic question is whether this kind of real-time viewing is possible in the (near?) future, and what are the steps for getting there. Thomas On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Jason Grout wrote: Thomas Scofield wrote: I have made an interactive notebook for help students underst

[sage-support] text3d and latex

2010-01-22 Thread Thomas Scofield
I have made an interactive notebook for help students understand the meaning of spherical coordinates. It is published at http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/1400/ The main issue here is the labeling of objects using symbols. I saw a posting from William Stein at http://groups.google.com

[sage-support] LaTeX text

2010-01-21 Thread Thomas Scofield
I am creating notebooks to publish for my students to use in a spring course. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am interspersing commands, output of those commands, and explanatory text. The only way I know to create the latter is to shift-click to open a text cell. I discovered a few days a

[sage-support] parametric_plot3d() not producing surfaces as desired

2010-01-21 Thread Thomas Scofield
I do not recall having trouble with parametric_plot3d() before today. I'm still not having trouble except when I try using it to plot a surface. I am running Sage through a browser (Firefox) at the website www.sagenb.org , so I presume it is the latest in programming. A simple command lik

Re: [sage-support] Re: color in plot_vector_field

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Scofield
Thank you for addressing this. On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:00 AM, Jason Grout wrote: Thomas Scofield wrote: I am planning to use Sage in a vector calculus course this spring. I have a plot of two simple vector fields which are everywhere orthogonal, and wish to have arrows for one field

[sage-support] color in plot_vector_field

2010-01-19 Thread Thomas Scofield
I am planning to use Sage in a vector calculus course this spring. I have a plot of two simple vector fields which are everywhere orthogonal, and wish to have arrows for one field colored differently than for the other. I cannot, however, find any documentation for a "color switch", nei