Re: Plotting TODO

[Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Nils Barth wrote:

> Hi all, esp. Aaron-
> I have a list of all the plots I could think of, together with m9a
> examples and some screen shots.

Nice! I am eager to start working on more plots, as the existing ones are
very simple.

> It might be nice as a TODO list for plotting, and has some notes on
> implementation. Should I make a TODO-plotting directory on CVS and
> dump the stuff there?

Look at canvas/TODO.

> Looking at it, there's only 2 plots (implicit plots in 2D and 3D) that
> are mathematically complicated (i.e., require some pretty heavy genius
> computations to plot), while the rest can be done just be evaluation
> of functions.

George and I are working on integrating the plotting environment wih GEL.
Right now it uses my own simple math parser but I am looking forward to
making it work with GEL. We have discussed a few optimizations that might
be useful when it comes to plotting, most notably using doubles rather
than GMP. GMP is really overkill for all plots I have ever seen.

> In fact, with only a few functions we should be able to plot virtually
> any graph anyone could want.
> Looks do-able and fun!

Wow! Sounds like fun.

> 
> -- 
>   -nils
>