[sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread Francois Maltey
Hello, I try to use the 3d plot but I can't. The first command is perfect. The second opens no new display and I can continue other calculus after. I use a sage 4.2 version in a emacs windows in gnome box. The distribution is an ubuntu. show( line([(1,2), (1,0), (3,1), (2,1)], color='red'))

Re: [sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread Christopher Olah
Installing Jmol may help. It's used to show the 3d stuff in a rotatable manner. That said, I think it should be using tachyon if Jmol isn't installed. On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Francois Maltey fmal...@nerim.fr wrote: Hello, I try to use the 3d plot but I can't. The first command is

Re: [sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread Laurent
Christopher Olah ha scritto: Installing Jmol may help. It's used to show the 3d stuff in a rotatable manner. That said, I think it should be using tachyon if Jmol isn't installed. As far as I remember, with Ubuntu, the right package is apt-get install icedtea6-plugin At least, on my

Re: [sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Christopher Olah christopherolah...@gmail.com wrote: Installing Jmol may help. It's used to show the 3d stuff in a rotatable manner. That said, I think it should be using tachyon if Jmol isn't installed. Jmol comes with Sage, so Jmol is always installed.

Re: [sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread Christopher Olah
Jmol comes with Sage, so Jmol is always installed.  However, you need Java to run Jmol. Sage doesn't fallback to anything if Jmol doesn't work (I wish Sage did fallback). That's interesting: I've had problems where it didn't work and I had to install Jmol myself. Is this a recent change? --

Re: [sage-support] plot3d doesn't display.

2009-11-29 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Christopher Olah christopherolah...@gmail.com wrote: Jmol comes with Sage, so Jmol is always installed.  However, you need Java to run Jmol. Sage doesn't fallback to anything if Jmol doesn't work (I wish Sage did fallback). That's interesting: I've had