2007/1/21, Mario Rodriguez <biomates at telefonica.net>:
> Hello,
>
> There was a discussion in this mailing list some months back regarding
> new Maxima-Gnuplot and Maxima-Openmath interfaces. I've been working the
> last weeks on the Maxima-Gnuplot part.
thank you very, very much for this.
> The project is in its very very infancy, but I think it's not a bad idea
> to make public the directions I took.
>
> All the relevant information is here:
>
> http://www.telefonica.net/web2/biomates/maxima/gpdraw
>
> Comments are welcome, specially those related to syntax and/or new
> capabilities.
As with gnuplot 4 it is for example possible to select with the mouse
and do some zoom, this is very promising.
I think that the hability to do some interactions with the mouse
(zoom, slide, rotation ... ) will be very appreciated by the users.
Just 2 ideas (unfortunately, I do not have the expertise to do the
actual developpement myself)
1/ plplot allows to do much scientific plotting and can already today
by linked to many programming languages as shown in
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples/index.html
Maybe maxima could be in the list without too much efforts.
3/ for 3D, the hability to rotate online the model would be very very
welcome. I don't know how good gnuplot can be at this but I think the
VTK (http://public.kitware.com/VTK/index.php) toolkit could be useful.
THanks again,
NIcolas
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Nicolas Pettiaux - email: nicolas.pettiaux at ael.be