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Re: display of graphics primitives

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg101132] Re: display of graphics primitives
• From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:10:12 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <h1sv5e$mbi$1@smc.vnet.net>

Why should the grass be green, why do I have to press 'send' when
sending mail and why can't I leave my microwave oven door open while
it's doing its job? And why, just why don't I ever win the lottery?

Count your blessings. Before V6, you had to enclose Graphics with Show
to actually generate visible graphics.

Cheers -- Sjoerd

On Jun 24, 12:29 pm, dsmithy <dsmi... at live.ca> wrote:
> Why do you have to place graphics primitives in the Graphics[ ]
> expression in order for them to be displayed graphically? Why doesn't,
> for example, Circle[ ] display as a graphic in StandardForm? Why must
> it be Graphics[Circle[ ]]?
> Thank you.