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.)

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.