Re: Re: Rotable Graphics and ViewPoint
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- Subject: [mg78549] Re: [mg78541] Re: Rotable Graphics and ViewPoint
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 05:30:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Yes, that's the whole point! It simply will not do to provide frighteningly complicated extra code to the novice who is still trying to cope with the basic syntax of Plot3D, say. (One could argue that Plot3D is itself a "black box", so why not provide the "gray box" of extra code to change the viewpoint. But students don't typically see it that way. If they see the complicated code early on, it seems to convince most that Mathematica is just too hard to fathom and so they'll just copy and paste from examples as templates rather than attempt to learn the basics themselves.) Albert wrote: > > I think that Helen needs something without extra code and that is > simpler than what is suggested. Although I agree that it would be nice > if Wolfram would implement some standard things for graphics (reading > and copying coordinates from a 2d-Graphics has come up already) in such > a way that you wouldn't need extra code to do them. On the other hand I > can imagine that there is disagreement about what would be important > enough to be a build-in and what not. And to have everything available > doesn't make the program easier to use, too... -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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