Re: DrGenius does 3d plotting!!!

[Nils Barth <nbarth@fas.harvard.edu>]

Thus spake Aaron Lehmann:
> I have successfully hacked dr-genius to do 3d-plotting on a gnome-canvas.
> Screenshot at http://vitelus.com/aaronl/dr-genius-3d.jpg (the graph in the
> picture looks lousy but it looks great on my screen - lousy screen capture
> or jpeg compression i guess).
> 
> Anyway, i am eager to commit the code that makes this work. Apply the
> first canvas diff i sent and I will send you a diff on that, or even
> better when miguel finally creates a cvs account for me i can finally
> commit to the canvas code without bothering you.

Wow! Looks cool.
Speaking of which: anyone, what are the plans for graphing in Dr. Genius?
AFAIK, the plan is to eventually use a CORBA component for graphing,
right?
This would allow guppi or the gnumeric plotting component or whatever,
right?

Aaron -- have you looked at the guppi stuff to see if your code could
work with that or if you could help integrate guppi into Dr. Genius?
http://www.gnome.org/guppi/
It would be nice to have graphing in Dr. Genius, but it would be
better yet to have a great gnome graphing component!

Everyone:
Looking at the guppi page, I found the following program:
NumExp:
http://numexp.sourceforge.net/
It's another GPL'ed Linux math program, with some gnome-ification.
It seems pretty early/alpha right now, but they do have:
error function
pseudo-random numbers
derivative/simplify (though I doubt it's very comprehensive)

We might be able to reuse some of the code for the above (esp. error
function and pseudo-random numbers), and they might be interested in
Dr. Genius or at least discussing stuff with us -- should I email them
and say hi?

Also, for those who don't read Gnotices:
Happy birthday George! (a bit late -- it was saturday)
-- 
  -nils