> Vadim> You are right PS is probably the only vital option
> Vadim> if we want to save plot for later use. Please register
> Vadim> bug on Maxima web site at SourceForge.
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> Eww. I think that of all plotting options, maxima's PS output is
> probably the ugliest available, and would never consider using them
> for anything, even for just looking on the screen. For plot2d_ps, the
> axes are unlabeled. The bounding box is the whole page, the tick
> marks are way too small, etc. For plot3d, the xyz axis is always the
> same size, there are no tick marks, no bounding box, etc.
I am going to introduce Maxima to my students. They will have enough to do
learning calculus and getting used to Maxima's command-line statements.
Fussing around with gnuplot,too, will be overkill.
And of course plots - especially of parametric functions - will be the
first thing, they will want to see.
And: gnuplot only produces box-plots, no y- vs x-axis diagrams, to which
they are used. For an experienced mathematician this is no problem, for a
beginner it's just another useless difficulty.
Regards,
Uli.
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> Openmath isn't bad, but it lacks a lot of stuff too. My personal
> favorite is gnuplot, which at least has axis labels and tick marks.
> You can save the output for later too. And gnuplot produces pretty
> good PS and EPS output for use in other documents.
>
> I have not tried geomview or zic in ages. Zic used to make very nice
> 3D shaded plots but was confused when you had 8-bit and 24-bit
> X visuals. I don't even know if they work anymore.
>
> Ray
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