On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I wish to improve animate so that it supports 3d plots
> (I want to make an animation of a moving 3d curve).
> I've been told that animate does this by joining several
> png files.

This bug was fixed at the last Sage Days.  A fix will appear in some
version of Sage in the near future..
See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2872
and maybe send "William Cauchois" <[email protected]>,  kudos for
spending hours fixing this bug.

William

>
> However, I've found no practical way to save pictures
> of 3d plots. I want let's say i have:
>
> sage: v=(sin(z+t),0,t)
> sage: a=parametric_plot3d(v,(z,0,4*pi))
>
> I want to save pictures of this for different values of t.
>
> I've tried with
>
> sage: tachyon_rt(a.tachyon(),'/path/to/file.png')
>
> which saves a png but it is viewed from a very
> inconvienient viewpoint. Can the viewpoint be
> specified?
>
> I've also tried with
>
> sage: a.show(filename='/path/to/file.png')
>
> but it did not produce a file.
>
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William Stein
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University of Washington
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