On 2014-03-05, Jason Suagee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I attempted to get knotscape working, but the program hung when I clicked > on one of the menu buttons (this might be an issue with Tcl or Tk). I was > able to check out the link drawing utility linkscape, so I have a good idea > of how that works. Since knotscape hung I don't know how it plots a knot, > is it a 3D representation (similar to that of say Mathematica). In order to > get knotscape to work with my linux distro I would probably have to > downgrade Tcl and Tk to an older version, which I don't particularly want > to get into right now.
Would you mind providing more details on what exactly goes wrong, with Tcl/Tk vesrions involved? (perhaps by opneing an issue on the github repo https://github.com/dimpase/knotscap) [...] > > While I had originally conceived of something 2D, Alex gave me the > impression that what he would like would be more useful. So I thought a bit > about how his idea might be made to work: > > > It would be pretty hard to do. You could plot the knot using OpenGL, or > WebGL since most people use Sage through the notebook interface which runs > on a browser. nowadays these things are normally done using higher level interfaces to WebGL, such as tree.js -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-gsoc" 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-gsoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
