Hi I glanced at the plotting capabilities of Fricas in order to provide some basic functionality for the 'kernel'. Naturally, I also searched this list for any hints as I try to avoid reinventing the wheel. After all the matter is quite confusing to me. Thus I dare asking some questions:
a) Is there any strategy to refurbish graphics output? b) Is there any library which provides (file) output for some of the common plotting/viewing packages? E.g. GLE, Asymptote, Gnuplot, matplotlib, Paraview, jmol ... For instance GLE and Asymptote provide nice ps output which could be automatically inserted into a frontend (IPy, TeXmacs). In TeXmacs it's even possible to receive 'ps' out of Fricas directly with the \x2ps:..\x5 sequence. Therefore: is any of the current plotting routines able to give Postscript output to stdout? c) What is the state of the Plot() domain? The 'coerce' gives some output (e.g. =plot((x:DF +-> x^2),1.0::DF..2.0::DF)@Plot), however, what was the purpose of this? Terminal graphics? I found some promising links in the thread: Re:[Axiom-mail] gnuplot on axiom-wiki , but the links seem to be dead. I read there that Bill Page had something in the direction of Gnuplot script output. This could be a starting point and I would be rather interested to use it in texmacs. The following two functions allow to insert graphics into tm while using the plugin, so a ready-to-use 'myplot' command could easily be patched up (not only for gnuplot). tmcmd(cmd:String):Void == print (concat [char 2,"command:",cmd,char 5]); tm_inline_image(url:String):Void == options:=" _"_" _"_" _"_" _"_" ))" q:="_"" tmcmd(concat ["(make-inline-image (list ", q, url, q, options]) Kurt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
