Saturday, January 26, 2008

coalescent

Given the title of this blog, I've meant to do some coalescent stuff in sage for a while. Now that I am about to teach about it in a class, I've finally found the motivation:
(It's cooler animated, but I can't figure out how to post a gif animation here.)

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Sage in 3D

It appears that Jmol will be the backend for most 3D graphics in Sage. After some hard work by developers (that I had nothing to do with) some of that functionality was put in Sage in time for the joint math meetings in San Diego. William somehow managed to find a slew of 3D glasses so that folks could enjoy the stereoscopic view:

(photo by Robert Bradshaw)

It will be exciting to see what happens as the Jmol integration proceeds.