Re: [sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Christopher Olah wrote: >> Jmol comes with Sage, so Jmol is always installed.  However, you need >> Java to run Jmol. >> Sage doesn't fallback to anything if Jmol doesn't work (I wish Sage >> did fallback). > > That's interesting: I've had problems where it didn't

Re: [sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread Christopher Olah
> Jmol comes with Sage, so Jmol is always installed.  However, you need > Java to run Jmol. > Sage doesn't fallback to anything if Jmol doesn't work (I wish Sage > did fallback). That's interesting: I've had problems where it didn't work and I had to install Jmol myself. Is this a recent change?

Re: [sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Christopher Olah wrote: > Installing Jmol may help. It's used to show the 3d stuff in a > rotatable manner. That said, I think it should be using tachyon if > Jmol isn't installed. Jmol comes with Sage, so Jmol is always installed. However, you need Java to run

Re: [sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread Laurent
Christopher Olah ha scritto: > Installing Jmol may help. It's used to show the 3d stuff in a > rotatable manner. That said, I think it should be using tachyon if > Jmol isn't installed. > As far as I remember, with Ubuntu, the right package is apt-get install icedtea6-plugin At least, on my comp

Re: [sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread Christopher Olah
Installing Jmol may help. It's used to show the 3d stuff in a rotatable manner. That said, I think it should be using tachyon if Jmol isn't installed. On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Francois Maltey wrote: > Hello, > > I try to use the 3d plot but I can't. > > The first command is perfect. >

[sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread Francois Maltey
Hello, I try to use the 3d plot but I can't. The first command is perfect. The second opens no new display and I can continue other calculus after. I use a sage 4.2 version in a emacs windows in gnome box. The distribution is an ubuntu. show( line([(1,2), (1,0), (3,1), (2,1)], color='red')) sh