[GiNaC-devel] GiNaC and Asymptote

[Vladimir Kisil]

		Dear All,

		With so many exciting activity going around GiNaC already I wish
  to propose even more. Why do not let GiNaC classes to visualise
  themselves? 

  There is an Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/):
  
  "is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language that provides a
  natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Labels and
  equations are typeset with LaTeX, for high-quality PostScript output."
  
  Since Asymptote has "C++-like programming syntax"---it looks like a
  sister package for GiNAC. This can be used to draw anything from
  Feynman diagram to 2D and 3D graphs of functions.  I used Asymptote as
  standalone application to visualise cycles in GiNaC library
  (http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.MS/0512073).

  I think it would be worth to integrate GiNaC with Asymptote. As a
  start I think to add a method .asy() to the GiNaC::basic which simply
  put a label at specific position with LaTeX representation of the
  object. For functions it would be rewritten by a method which try to draw its
  graph (if this is possible). 

  If the general perception is that this is worthy I may try to produce
  an initial patch.

  Best wishes,
  Vladimir
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Vladimir V. Kisil     email: kisilv at maths.leeds.ac.uk
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