[sage-combinat-devel] Re: Drawings for Permutations -- how would you plot them ?

2012-04-25 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:24:14 UTC+8, Nathann Cohen wrote: Helloo everybody !!! Because of a former post on this google group [1] I created the following patch [2]. It adds to Permutation objects a .show() method that produces this kind of drawings [3]. Hence, that would be the

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Drawings for Permutations -- how would you plot them ?

2012-04-25 Thread Christian Stump
group theorists would normally draw permutations as collection of directed cycles, with labelled vertices. I would somewhat also expect this to be the default drawing of a permutation. Especially, when a permutation has a lot of fix points, diagram presentations get kind of messy. Imagine the

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Drawings for Permutations -- how would you plot them ?

2012-04-25 Thread Martin Rubey
Christian Stump christian.st...@gmail.com writes: group theorists would normally draw permutations as collection of directed cycles, with labelled vertices. I would somewhat also expect this to be the default drawing of a permutation. Especially, when a permutation has a lot of fix points,

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Plotting permutations

2012-04-25 Thread Nathann Cohen
Helloo everybody !!! I just sent the patch ! It is a bit dense, but efficiently documented :-) I do not expect it to be reviewed very soon, but if anybody is interested I would be glad to see it merged to Sage. It also implements some stuff of independent interest (negative certificates for