Re: [sympy] Re: SymPy Gamma: hand-written input

2014-03-13 Thread Gilbert Gede
I always thought an interesting approach would be a handwriting - LaTeX translator, and then a LaTeX - SymPy translator (although I'm not sure if it would be LaTeX code, or an actual LaTeX document). Seemed like it would allow for a little more flexibility and would be made of smaller, more

[sympy] Re: SymPy Gamma: hand-written input

2014-03-12 Thread David Li
Hello, This sounds like a great idea for Gamma. How familiar are you with web development? In particular, do you have any experience with JavaScript? I would also encourage you to look at the application templatehttps://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2014-Application-Template and also

[sympy] Re: SymPy Gamma: hand-written input

2014-03-12 Thread Fedor Morozov
Hello, David. Unfortunately I have no experience with JavaScript yet, but since the main challenge of the project is the backend part (formula recognition), I can get enough JavaScript knowledge before the coding phase starts. I also think that it would be great to develop Sympy Gamma mobile app

Re: [sympy] Re: SymPy Gamma: hand-written input

2014-03-12 Thread Matthew Rocklin
Handwritten input sounds neat. I use and find great value in http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html Handwritten mathematical expression recognition is general and useful enough that I'd like to see it done outside of SymPy and then imported, this way other projects can also use it. Fedor,

Re: [sympy] Re: SymPy Gamma: hand-written input

2014-03-12 Thread Fedor Morozov
Hello, Matthew. The problem is sure feasible, you can test a great implementation here: http://webdemo.visionobjects.com Unfortunately I haven't found any opensource formula recognition tools, so maybe there is no code to adapt. The are lots of articles on the topic even from the 80s. For