So, is it planned that jmol will continue to be the 3d viewer for a
long time to come?
I'm no lover of Mathematica, but have used it now in various courses
for 10 years or so. And though I'm committed to going forward with
Sage, I really miss the real-time sliders in the other product. I
mean real real-time. Not, as with all the interact cells I've viewed,
where nothing happens in the viewer until you let go of the mouse, and
then a new picture is generated. Is this something jmol is capable
of, but Sage hasn't yet taken advantage of that capability? 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 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/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/fed33b91e4700969/6c1073f9bcc4928d?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=latex+text+in+plot#6c1073f9bcc4928d
which (though directed at the text() command instead of text3d()),
indicated I should be able to use
text3d('$\\rho$', (1,1,1))
(the double backslash was important) to place a desired Greek
symbol in a desired location. That seems not to be working,
however. Instead, the backslash characters seem (sometimes) to
wipe out the first letter, and the rest of "ho" is printed, along
with the dollar signs. Is this a bug?
The text (2d) command understands latex, but the 3d command does
not. The problem is that jmol (the 3d viewer) does not understand
latex.
Thanks,
Jason
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