#16625: projection_direction broken for polytopes
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Reporter: kcrisman | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.3
Component: geometry | Resolution:
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Description changed by kcrisman:
Old description:
> In comments for [http://ask.sagemath.org/question/23223
> /projection_direction-broken-for-polytopes/ this ask.sagemath question],
> we see that
> {{{
> sage: P8 = polytopes.n_cube(4)
> sage: P8.schlegel([2,5,11,17])
> AttributeError: 'Polyhedra_ZZ_ppl_with_category.element_class' object has
> no attribute 'schlegel'
> }}}
> while for polytopes defined over `QQ` this isn't a problem. The
> documentation for polytope plotting doesn't seem to indicate this, other
> than a mysterious and ill-placed
> [http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/geometry/sage/geometry/polyhedron/plot.html#sage.geometry.polyhedron.plot.Projection.tikz
> todo in the tikz method], which might not even be related.
>
> ----
>
> Two related things which may or may not be bugs.
>
> From the same question, the two following should be different, but
> aren't. This is a different bug; apparently it used to work.
> {{{
> poly = polytopes.twenty_four_cell()
> poly.show()
>
> poly.show(projection_direction=[2,5,11,17])
> }}}
>
> Also,
> {{{
> sage: P8.base_ring?
> Type: instancemethod
> String form: <bound method
> Polyhedra_ZZ_ppl_with_category.element_class.base_ring of A 4-dimensional
> polyhedron in ZZ^4 defined as the convex hull of 16 vertices>
> Definition: P8.base_ring(self)
> Docstring:
> Return the base ring.
>
> OUTPUT:
>
> Either "QQ" (exact arithmetic using gmp, default) or "RDF" (double
> precision floating-point arithmetic)
>
> EXAMPLES:
>
> sage: triangle = Polyhedron(vertices = [[1,0],[0,1],[1,1]])
> sage: triangle.base_ring() == ZZ
> True
> }}}
> I particularly like how the **example** directly contradicts the
> documentation ;-)
New description:
From [http://ask.sagemath.org/question/23223/projection_direction-broken-
for-polytopes/ this ask.sagemath question], the two following should be
different, but aren't.
{{{
poly = polytopes.twenty_four_cell()
poly.show()
poly.show(projection_direction=[2,5,11,17])
}}}
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