One of the comments mentioned a link to a great page on elliptic curves.... but I think they just meant ellipses. Not that I have a one-track mind or anything!
John On 09/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the record, that wasn't me. I haven't used Mathematica nearly that > long... > > > > On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, William Stein wrote: > > > > > Hi Sage-Devel, > > > > If you don't sites like "digg" delete this message. > > > > Some of you who read Digg (http://digg.com) might find the front page > > right now interesting, since the top article is on Mathematica easter eggs. > > The comments are here: > > > > http://digg.com/design/Using_Mathematica_to_decorate_Easter_Eggs > > > > The linked to article is: > > http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/08/using-mathematica-to.html > > > > Half the comments are of the form "[Mathematica|Wolfram] Sucks", and > > none have any content. > > > > Anyway, I tried to make an easter egg for a few seconds in Sage > > and didn't get far: > > > > var('s,t') > > g(s) = abs(sin(1-s)+0.01*sin(2*(1-s))) > > def P(color, rng): > > return parametric_plot3d( (cos(t)*g(s), sin(t)*g(s), s), > > (s,rng[0],rng[1]), (t,0,2*pi), color=color) > > > > sum([P(clr, r) for clr, r in [('red',(-2.1,-1.8)), ('purple',(-1.8,1))]]) > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Alfredo Portes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:51 PM > > Subject: Digg > > To: William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > This just hit the first page of Digg. > > > > http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/08/using-mathematica-to.html > > > > Interesting that the first comment in the page is from a "new user" to > > Sage (Tom) :) > > > > Regards, > > > > Alfredo > > > > > > > > -- > > William Stein > > Associate Professor of Mathematics > > University of Washington > > http://wstein.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- John Cremona --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
