sage mentioned in slashdot comments right now

[William Stein]

Sage is being mentioned in the comments to this article:

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/27/1327255

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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

[Ondrej Certik]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:01 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sage is being mentioned in the comments to this article:
>
> http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/27/1327255

It even mentions my, Prabhu and Jaap's work on getting mayavi working
in the sage notebook. Cool, it cost me several sleepless nights at the
Siam conference. Here is the updated howto for getting it working in
Sage/SPD:

http://code.google.com/p/femhub/

but I think it still fails to build on Mac (mainly due to VTK).

Ondrej

[Jason Grout]

Um, yeah, that comment was by me. Sorry I posted anonymously... I
couldn't pass up the opportunity to publicize Sage and the cool Mayavi
work that you guys have done. Hopefully someone saw it and clicked the
links.

I've shown the VRML Mayavi stuff you guys did to several people. I
think it's really cool and that we ought to pursue it more.

I'm glad it got modded up...one of these days I ought to find the
username/password I had in the late 90s.

Jason

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Jason Grout

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

Jason Grout wrote:

> Ondrej Certik wrote:
>> It even mentions my, Prabhu and Jaap's work on getting mayavi working
>> in the sage notebook. Cool, it cost me several sleepless nights at the
>> Siam conference. Here is the updated howto for getting it working in
>> Sage/SPD:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/femhub/
>>
>> but I think it still fails to build on Mac (mainly due to VTK).

Well, it does build on the Mac but seems to require a framework build. I
wish there were a faster mac machine we could build this on or maybe I
should work on my patience. :)

> Um, yeah, that comment was by me. Sorry I posted anonymously... I
> couldn't pass up the opportunity to publicize Sage and the cool Mayavi
> work that you guys have done. Hopefully someone saw it and clicked the
> links.
>
> I've shown the VRML Mayavi stuff you guys did to several people. I
> think it's really cool and that we ought to pursue it more.

Many thanks for doing that! BTW, is the little patch to embed the .x3d
files in the notebook applied, should I submit a ticket?

cheers,
prabhu

[Ondrej Certik]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran
<pra...@aero.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
>
> Jason Grout wrote:
>> Ondrej Certik wrote:
>>> It even mentions my, Prabhu and Jaap's work on getting mayavi working
>>> in the sage notebook. Cool, it cost me several sleepless nights at the
>>> Siam conference. Here is the updated howto for getting it working in
>>> Sage/SPD:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/femhub/
>>>
>>> but I think it still fails to build on Mac (mainly due to VTK).
>
> Well, it does build on the Mac but seems to require a framework build. I
> wish there were a faster mac machine we could build this on or maybe I
> should work on my patience. :)

William made me an account on a fast Mac box, so maybe you can get an
account too, if you have time to work on this -- it will be good for
Sage too, to have VTK and mayavi in a better state.

Brian needs this too on Mac, so I'll get to it eventually, but first I
want to get some results with it on linux.

>
>> Um, yeah, that comment was by me.  Sorry I posted anonymously...  I
>> couldn't pass up the opportunity to publicize Sage and the cool Mayavi
>> work that you guys have done.  Hopefully someone saw it and clicked the
>> links.
>>
>> I've shown the VRML Mayavi stuff you guys did to several people.  I
>> think it's really cool and that we ought to pursue it more.
>
> Many thanks for doing that!  BTW, is the little patch to embed the .x3d
> files in the notebook applied, should I submit a ticket?

I think this goes to the notebook --- if Make is working on making it
a separate package, maybe he will take care of this too. It'd be cool
to have it.

Ondrej

[Ondrej Certik]

>> Many thanks for doing that!  BTW, is the little patch to embed the .x3d
>> files in the notebook applied, should I submit a ticket?
>
> I think this goes to the notebook --- if Make is working on making it

I mean Mike. Sorry. :)

Ondrej

[William Stein]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran
> <pra...@aero.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
>>
>> Jason Grout wrote:
>>> Ondrej Certik wrote:
>>>> It even mentions my, Prabhu and Jaap's work on getting mayavi working
>>>> in the sage notebook. Cool, it cost me several sleepless nights at the
>>>> Siam conference. Here is the updated howto for getting it working in
>>>> Sage/SPD:
>>>>
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/femhub/
>>>>
>>>> but I think it still fails to build on Mac (mainly due to VTK).
>>
>> Well, it does build on the Mac but seems to require a framework build. I
>> wish there were a faster mac machine we could build this on or maybe I
>> should work on my patience. :)
>
> William made me an account on a fast Mac box, so maybe you can get an
> account too, if you have time to work on this -- it will be good for
> Sage too, to have VTK and mayavi in a better state.

Yes, you can get an account. Email offlist with your desired login name.

-- William