Hey everyone, Thanks for all the input. I'll share the discussion with my student and I'll send an update to this thread once we've decided what direction to go in.
- Greg On Friday, September 13, 2013 2:10:16 PM UTC-4, Greg Laun wrote: > > I have a student who specializes in 3d graphics (in particular writing > very fast physics and game engines) who has expressed interest in > contributing to Sage. From the sound of it, it would be very simple for > him to implement fast, responsive interactive 3d graphics, which I for one > would definitely like to see. I realize we have jmol, but it currently has > a long load time. > > The only issue is I don't know enough about the status of sage's 3d > graphics to know where to start. Is there a 3d graphic wish list, or any > tickets that describe what features a 3d graphics system needs? Are > separate native implementations in Windows, OSX and Linux okay, or do we > need something like Java that is truly platform agnostic? > > As a user, my ideal would be 3d and 2d graphics that update in real time > with the interact command. Mathematica has the edge here, and it would go > a long way toward drawing some users away from Mathematica if we could > compete in this arena. > > Thanks, > > Greg > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" 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/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
