Simon, thanks for your response. I think that the student was interested in something in between just having nice pictures and writing the code himself. I am pretty sure the student is done with their project by now (it was for a class that I'm not teaching).
Dana On Nov 4, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Simon King wrote: > Hi Dana! > > On 5 Okt., 19:17, "D.C. Ernst" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a student that is interested in generating fractals (like the >> Mandelbrot set). Is this something Sage can do (or help with)? > > Ist s/he interested in the fractals mathematically, as pictures, or as > a nice example for practicing programming skills? > > If it is about programming skills, it is certainly instructive to > write a Sage-Python program generating Mandelbrot sets, using the > Sage's plotting facilities. Such program will be very slow. And then, > cythonize it! It is amazing how much Cython speeds the whole > computation up, when you cdefine your complex coordinates as pair of > doubles, and cdefine the indices of any tight loop as int. > > Cheers, > Simon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-edu" group. > 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-edu?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. 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-edu?hl=en.
