sen1 at math.msu.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that at least some of the plotting routines are written in
> tcl.
>
> These days, is that the best choice?
>
> Would it be better to take something like "python," and try to write
> scripts (say, incorporating matplotlib or some such thing), for new
> plotting programs?
Indeed, this is what SAGE does (sage.scipy.org), which includes
maxima and matplotlib. For example, to plot the
inverse Jacobi function sn^(-1), type
sage: ijsn = lambda x: inverse_jacobi("sn",x,1/2)
sage: P= plot(ijsn,0,1)
Now to view this, just type show(P). Further
details:http://sage.scipy.org/sage/doc/html/ref/module-sage.functions.special.html
Maybe I'm not understanding things right but it seems your suggestion to
use matplotlib would force maxima to distribute python. Is that part of
your
suggestion?
>
> It seems to me that there is much more current activity in developing
> graphing capabilities, e.g. 3d, in the python community.
>
> Perhaps a good solution would be to open up a plot window which one
> could interact with to read data from maxima and use whatever external
> plotting program one wished.
>
> Any opinions, comments, suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> -sen
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