Re: Mathematica on the Web
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg21728] Re: Mathematica on the Web
- From: Martin Kraus <Martin.Kraus at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 03:45:30 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Stuttgart
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello Alan! Alan Lewis wrote: > > I have some Mathematica code I would like to implement on the > Web in an interactive manner. Ignoring the licensing issue for the > moment, some questions. > > Is it possible for a java applet to call Mathematica and receive back > values (including graphics) for display? You might be interested in J/Link by Wolfram Research: http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/jlink/ It allows what you are asking for on a local machine with the Java-Applet running locally (not in the web). > How about just calling the graphics routines? Same problem. > (I ask this because I have seen some links > to Graphics3D viewers, although these viewers do not seem to > be interactive, in the sense that you can change Module parameters) That's right. An alternative is to implement the numerical parts of the Mathematica-Code in JavaScript and call the graphics viewer with it. In the example at http://wwwvis.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~kraus/LiveGraphics3D/java_script/SphericalHarmonics.html the SphericalHarmonicY function was symbolically evaluated with Mathematica for particular L values. The symbolic results were implemented in JavaScript and are then numerically evaluated with JavaScript in order to plot the graphics which are displayed with a Java applet. > More generally, what is the most straightforward way to call Mathematica > and return html dynamically? Are there any examples of this besides > integration servers? There are still some MathScript applications on the web http://www.mathscript.com and http://www.optics.Arizona.EDU/jcwyant/math.htm but as far as I know MathScript was never released as a commercial product. You might also be interested to have a look at http://www.imath.org/ > Any comments or links highly appreciated. > Alan Lewis I am afraid all these approaches will not do want you want. J/Link might do it in the future. Sorry. Martin Kraus