Hi Ron!
> I have been playing with 3d plotting in Maxima recently (I have it
> installed on my Windows and Linux machines) and have noticed that I can
> rotate the plots when I am running Maxima under Windows but not under
> Linux. Why is this? Could it be a version difference? I have 5.9.2 on
> Windows and 5.9.1 on Linux.
This is well known problem. Unfortunately there is
no easy way to fix it.
How Maxima make plots with gnuplot? It makes maxout.gnuplot
file with data to plot and feeds into gnuplot command.
On UNIX gnuplot quits as soon as maxout.gnuplot end of file
is reached. So plot window should momentary flash and disappear.
To prevent this Maxima uses gnuplot with -persist switch.
With it plot window stay on the screen even after EOF is reached.
The trouble is that this persistent plot window isn't
full gnuplot it is very simplistic small program -
it can't rotate and do many other things.
On Windows wgnuplot.exe behaves in different fashion.
It stay in memory even EOF is reached and we can
rotate plot.
There is two way to see plot rotation on UNIX:
1. Use openmath plot format
2. Save maxout.gnuplot file.
Start gnuplot manually and load
this data file into it.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov