[GiNaC-devel] GiNaC and Asymptote

[Vladimir Kisil]

Chris Dams <Chris.Dams at mi.infn.it> wrote:

    CD> >   I think it would be worth to integrate GiNaC with Asymptote. As a
    CD> >   start I think to add a method .asy() to the GiNaC::basic which simply

    CD> I think I do not really understand very well in what cases this
    CD> would be useful. 

    Probably I did not explain it properly: at the first stage this will
  be an expansion of GiNaC with the plotting functionality which provided
  in other CASes (like Mathematica or Maple) by the functions plot(...) and
  plot2(...). In other words, this will initially serves for plotting graphs
  of functions, and is not intended as a substation of the standard
  LaTeX output. 

  Idea is that many symbolical expressions with one or two parameters
  may be better understood if plotted as a graphs of functions from
  these parameters. Expressions with a large numbers of parameters may
  be plotted if some extra parameters are substituted by appropriate
  numeric values. 

  Since Asymptote is a powerful scripting language its applications in
  GiNaC is not necessarily limited to function plotting only. I can imagine
  that some GiNaC classes can be visualised as trees, graphs or diagrams and
  Asymptote can handle this as well. 

  Best wishes,
  Vladimir
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