Saturday, February 27, 2010

complex plot in sage

I've been amusing myself all day with doing some complex plotting in Sage. The default color scheme has 0=black, infinity=white, and red=real. A lot of the time, this doesn't work too well, but if you plot f/abs(f) the color will just depend on the complex argument. For example, if f = (z^5+1)/(z^5-1) we get:



Or a more baroque example, f = z*log(z)*exp((z^5+1)/(z^5-1)^(1/2)):




Sometimes the default coloring is helpful, for example when showing the essential singularity at 0 of exp(1/z):

2 comments:

Harald Schilly said...

"infinity loop" - sort of:

f(x) = sin(x) / x^6; complex_plot(f(x)/abs(f(x)), (-4,4),(-2,2), plot_points=200, axes=False, figsize=[10,7])

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