Re: Plotting TODO

[Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>]

I looked at this dir, some plots look pretty hard. However, if you can
compute vector fields, I can draw them into a drawing area fairly easilly
:).

Aaron Lehmann

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Nils Barth wrote:

> Thus spake Aaron Lehmann:
> > 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.
> 
> hehehe *evil cackle*
> Oh, you'll be busy for a while yet.
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Okay -- I made a directory of types of plots to do in
> canvas/TODO-plots
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> agreed.
> one concern -- you might want to look at m9a's Microscope function
> just to make sure that there are no problems with plotting over very
> very small domains (like, sine over -1*10^-50, 1*10^-50).
> 
> -- 
>   -nils
>