[sage-support] Re: Problems with 3d plotting

2010-01-20 Thread finotti
Dear all, On Jan 18, 11:35 am, Jack Fearnley j...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: The plot3d command works silently producing no visible output and no error messages. Oddly enough, I am having the same problem. (Yes, unless things changed, you should be able to get 3D graphs from the command line.

Re: [sage-support] Re: Problems with 3d plotting

2010-01-20 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:17 AM, finotti luis.fino...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, On Jan 18, 11:35 am, Jack Fearnley j...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: The plot3d command works silently producing no visible output and no error messages. Oddly enough, I am having the same problem.  (Yes, unless

[sage-support] Re: Problems with 3d plotting

2010-01-19 Thread jack
Thanks for the suggestions. I have now installed icedtea6-plugin and sun-java6-plugin together with their dependencies etc. Running sage still gives no output and no error message. However, when I run in notebook mode I get a solid black square with a message saying 'jmol loading' with a

[sage-support] Re: Problems with 3d plotting

2010-01-19 Thread Jason Grout
jack wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. I have now installed icedtea6-plugin and sun-java6-plugin together with their dependencies etc. Running sage still gives no output and no error message. However, when I run in notebook mode I get a solid black square with a message saying 'jmol

[sage-support] Re: Problems with 3d plotting

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Madison
Jack and All, Try opening up a new worksheet and rename it. Then try a 3D plot from the new work sheet. I have had a problem with 3D plot after I rotate a plot in a worksheet and then save it. After that I can not get 3D plot to work in that worksheet, however, if I open a new work sheet it

[sage-support] Re: Problems with 3d plotting

2010-01-19 Thread jack
I just tried http://jmol.sourceforge.net/demo/dots/ and it worked perfectly. After opening a new worksheet in the notebook mode I still get a black square. Two questions: 1) Is notebook mode the only way to make 3d plots? 2) Is it possible that I have a path problem with sage in /tools rather

[sage-support] Re: Problems with 3d plotting

2010-01-18 Thread William Cauchois
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10. I installed the package sun-java6-plugin and it works for me. On Jan 18, 8:35 am, Jack Fearnley j...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: I have just compiled sage-4.3 running under ubuntu 9.04 on an IBM pentium machine. The sage directory is in its own partition under /tools. I

[sage-support] Re: Problems with 3d plotting

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Madison
I needed to install icetea from a terminal window run: sudo apt-get install icedtea6-plugin On Jan 18, 7:23 pm, William Cauchois wcauch...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 9.10. I installed the package sun-java6-plugin and it works for me. On Jan 18, 8:35 am, Jack Fearnley