On Thursday 20 April 2006 23:54 about Re: [Maxima] user interfaces in general
Mario Rodriguez wrote:
> No doubt, gnuplot is a great plotting package, but there are some things
> impossible or very difficult to manage from Maxima. Some days ago
> Fateman pointed out interactive 3d graphics, and I would add images
> (image processing, fractals), other interactive plots (graphs,
> mouse-based parameter control), animations (very interesting from an
> educational point of view), and some basic graphical objects in order to
> make possible the design of all sorts of (statistical and other)
> diagrams.
There is common lisp interface to plplot library.
http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-plplot/
It is quite sophisticated and has many good features including mentioned
above. It would be great to port it to maxima.
regards
Valery