3-D graphing software?

[Dotan Cohen]

On 20/11/2007, Alexander Volovics <awol at home.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:20:26PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > Thank. I looked at R (and specifivally RKWard for KDE) and I see that
> > it is _not_ appropriate. R can make graphs, but it does not perform
> > any of the functions that I mentioned. More accurately, it may allow
> > me to write a program with those functions, but I am looking for a
> > graphics calculator, not a software language in which graphics
> > calculators can be written.
>
> R is a collection of (statistical) data analysis tools.
> Strictly speaking it cannot perform the functions you mention.
> Yet I have been able to do most of the things you want using
> tools contained in R and in R packages (you can load R packages
> from the command line in R). And I HATE programming in any form!
> But I would have to write a small manual for you :)
> I only mentioned R because you can easily make excellent graphs with it.
>
> As has already been mentioned you can use computer algebra
> symbolic computation packages like maxima. yacas and octave.
>
> Maxima (in combination with for example the gui wxmaxima)
> will do most of what you want and uses gnuplot.
> (It is Lisp oriented).
>
> Yacas is also good AND can be used in combination with R
> and from within R if you load the R package 'Ryacas'.
> Then you can also use the excellent R graphics facilities.
> (see for example: http://cran-mirror.cs.uu.nl/ for Ryacas)
>
> Maxima, octave and yacas have Fedora packages.
>
> Also worth looking into are the combinations:
> Euler+Yacas (Windows only)
> Euler+Maxima
>
> Alexander

Thanks, I'll look into Yacas and Euler.


Dotan Cohen

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