Greetings! "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the context of this discussion let me recall a much earlier > email from Mike Dewar: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2002-11/msg00151.html > > Re: [Axiom-developer] Windows front end > Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] Windows front end > Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:24:19 +0000 > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Tim Daly wrote: > <snip> > > Mike Dewar wrote: > > I'm happy to hear that work was done to make the graphics more open. > > One of the stated goals on the homepage is to "give away" the graphics. > > I was planning to enhance the abilities of some other open source > > product (like GNUPlot) with the facilities available in Axiom. That > > way they gain with new function and we gain because we don't have to > > support the graphics any more. > > I think we looked at GNUPlot and decided it wasn't good enough because > it lacked many of the features for manipulating 3D images that were in > the Unix version. Using Open Inventor/VRML means you can export images > to industrial-strength visualisation packages which was important to us. > After we released Axiom under Windows, Maple moved their graphics onto > OpenGL (the toolkit Open Inventor is built on) so we're not the only > people who think that this is a good approach :-) Of course GNUplot has > probably come a long way since we looked at it and may be suitable for > your needs, but I doubt its as good as Mathematica and Maple's > offerings. > This is the concrete issue that needs to be worked out at this point, IMHO. It would be a great service if someone could detail exactly what graphics manipulations axiom relies on, and compares this list with the most recent gnuplot's (version 4 if I recall) abilities. Then we can see which is more 'industrial-strength' in the open source world, an important consideration, IMHO. Needless to say, this term is not synonymous with commercial. Take care, -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
