chapter 5,Maxima by Example



Hello,

this looks all very nice!

I couldn't find something on the licence?
Can the pdf-files be freely distributed?

Oliver


On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:22:20PM -0700, Edwin Woollett wrote:
> Chapter 5, 2D Plots and Graphics using qdraw,
>  in the series of notes Maxima by Example,
>   has been posted at my webpage,
>    http://www.csulb.edu/~woollett
>    together with the maxima code file qdraw.mac.
> 
>  qdraw.mac is an interface to Maxima's draw2d
>    function which provides  quicker access to
>    some features of draw2d, with defaults of
>     interest  to users from the physical sciences
>    and engineering.
> 
> Chapter 5 presents many examples which use qdraw.mac.
> 
> Chapter 5 sections:
>  1. Quick Plots for Explicit Functions: ex(...) ,
>  2. Quick Plots for Implicit Functions: imp(...),
>  3. Contour Plots with contour(...),
>  4. Density Plots with qdensity(...),
>  5. Explicit Plots with Greater Control: ex1(...),
>  6. Explicit Plots with ex1(...) and Log Scaled Axes,
>  7. Data Plots with Error Bars: pts(...) and errorbars(...),
>  8. Implicit Plots with Greater Control: imp1(...), 
>  9. Parametric Plots with para(...),
>  10. Polar Plots with polar(...),
>  11. Geometric Figures: line(...),
>  12. Geometric Figures: rect(...),
>  13. Geometric Figures: poly(...), 
>  14. Geometric Figures: circle(...) and ellipse(...),
>  15. Geometric Figures: vector(..), 
>  16. Geometric Figures: arrowhead(..),
>  17. Labels with Greek Letters,
>  18. Even More with more(...),
>  19. Programming Homework Exercises, 
>  20. Acknowledgements.
> 
> I would like to thank Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
>   for his encouragement and advice at crucial stages
>   in the development of the qdraw interface to draw2d.
> 
> The recent updating of the draw package to allow use of
>   Gnuplot's enhanced postscript features makes
>  Maxima a more attractive tool  for the creation 
>   of educational diagrams.
> 
> Ted Woollett
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