On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Rob Beezer<[email protected]> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> Probably I've cc'd this respond to the sage-devel mailing list to see what >> the many other sage developers think: > > I spent a few minutes looking at this. Most of the examples look like > many Sage interacts - sliders controlling plots or graphics. > Disclaimer: I'm always on the lookout for ways to use graphics as > graph editors, so I'm interested in using these sorts of tools for > *input* and not just output. > > For those who want to peek here's three examples I selected, plus what > I would think of as pros and cons relative to the usefullness for > Sage. > > Typical example: > http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wiki/index.php/Power_Series > > JQuery controls: > http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wiki/index.php/Circles_on_circles > > Potential for graph theory: > Controls are movable points in 2-D > http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wiki/index.php/Include_JSXGraph_together_with_jQuery
Very cool! > > Pros: > LGPL license > Fairly smooth updates as sliders vary > Good browser support > Zoom and pan well-supported > Plays nicely with JQuery > > Cons: > Must use Javascript for defining mathematical functions > Very limited library of math functions (about 20 functions) > Duplicates Sage interacts > No obvious facility to use as an input device? > Nothing for 3-D? > > Rob > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
