--- Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> wrote:
>
> This is so mangled I can't read it!
Sorry about that. Cleaner version should have come
through.
> There is matlisp (on sourceforge) that hooks LAPACK
> into lisp with
> some matrix classes through in. Only works with
> CMUCL and ACL
> currently. It should work with any Lisp that an FFI
> and stores
> double-float arrays in exactly the same way Fortran
> would store them.
>
> I've always thought that would be cool to put the
> two together.
> Perhaps this is what the SENAC (?) guys in New
> Zealand did (with
> different packages)?
That sounds interesting.
> CY> does anyone know anything about the plplot
> library? In my
>
> plplot does not work on Solaris. Doing a foreign
> function interface is a pain.
>
> Otherwise, it looks ok. Don't know how easy it is
> to use.
Any idea why it won't fly on Solaris?
> Is it because maxima is slow in generating the data
> for plotting or is
> it because the display of the plot is slow? The
> Klein bottle demo is
> pretty slow on my 300 MHz Ultra 30. Rotating the
> plot with the mouse
> is pretty fast, but the surface is very randomly
> patched until I stop
> moving the mouse. Then the display is fixed very
> quickly. On my 800
> MHz Linux box, I think the surface rotates nicely in
> one piece.
That's the behavior I see. Is there any way to make
that cleaner? The current plotting isn't bad, but I
think smoother graphics (maybe with Macsyma style
controls) would probably turn some heads.
> I think maxima has the right idea: Use some
> external process to do
> the actual display and let maxima generate the data.
> Doing anything
> else makes maxima much less portable.
Agreed. The trick is talking between the two.
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