Re: Polar Plots don't seem to work
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- Subject: [mg56524] Re: [mg56498] Polar Plots don't seem to work
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:40:11 -0400 (EDT)
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You need to load the Graphics package. Start with a fresh kernel and then
Needs["Graphics`Graphics`"];
PolarPlot[Sin[t],{t,0,2Pi}];
Bob Hanlon
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> From: Peter Jay Salzman <p at dirac.org>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Date: 2005/04/26 Tue PM 09:53:26 EDT
> Subject: [mg56524] [mg56498] Polar Plots don't seem to work
>
> I'm on Linux using Mathematica 5.0.1.0.
>
> When I try to make a polar plot, no graphics is shown. This is what I see:
>
>
> In[1]:= PolarPlot[Sin[t], {t, 0, 2*\[Pi]}]
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> Out[1]= PolarPlot[Sin[t],{t,0,2 \[Pi]}]
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>
> Mathematica simply repeats what I told it without displaying a graphic.
Even the
> polar plot in the help browser topic doesn't work.
>
> Any ideas why Mathematica isn't showing me polar plots? Do I need to
explicitly
> display something?
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
>
Bob Hanlon
Chantilly, VA