strange spirals, coloured areas and esthetical solids of revolution...
I use the program “mathcad” to create pictures of such matter,
there are anybodies which do similar like it?
to show what I mean I’ll present a few pictures.
they are generated by printing a mathcad-sheet as bmp and convert than in jpg.
in original (mathcad file .mcd) one can rotate the figures, change their colors and illuminate them with diverse light…..
for a few I add the formula to show, how the analytical concept for the figures
edit: the first there is in a better version
but how I can exchange the pics ?
That 3rd one is a savage bra!!!I like the wormhole!
Most of my mathcad stuff is for calculations. I used to use it when I was at uni and for a few years afterwards. I got a copy of mathcad a year or two ago, but really haven't used it much - just played around. These days I find I've gotten so used to working out ways of solving problems in Excel, say, that I don't have much use anymore for the heavy maths and mathcad. I used to do lots of vector, matrix and eigenvectors, calculus and differential equation type stuff in the early years of my career. I don't do that stuff any more.
Its a bit sad really because it used to seem so easy, but now I'm so out of touch with REAL mathematics...
What I really need is the time to sit down and work on project with it... I have thought about doing a plot of gravitational field strength for a 2 body orbiting system - obviously to show the Lagrangian points, but I haven't had the time to really get anywhere with it.
Do you play with the animation capability at all? I don't think Mathcad had animations back in the early days (Mathcad 1 and maybe mathcad 3 I think I used). I have Mathcad 13 now... I have no idea how much it's capable of, but I would only be capable of using a fraction of a percent of what it could do!
Al.
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ha! I can do that on my TI89, rotate a function about X or y axis to create a volume of revolution.
I haven't tried 3d transformation on the TI89Titanium. Apparently it can do them although from a visualization point it wouldn't be anything like Mathcad.
I would only be capable of using a fraction of a percent of what it could do!
Al.
me too
I use the version mathcad 8, the first which make possible so many variants for colored figures.
I have buy it 6 y ago for ca 40 USD, but the new versions are exorbitant for me
Ric, for you in downunder is now midnight already, here we have daylight still.
before I will eat my lunch, I dig up any more figures from my archive, you will enjoy them not until tomorrow, I assume
the last was especially difficult like every then, if the denominator may be zero at any places
ispom
Doing mathematical art is quite interesting, which I have been doing on and off for ages. Using the MAC OS X, I often run POV for MAC 3.6 and a little Python program called NodeBox. Although I have experimented with POV Ray on a number of occasions, NodeBox I find the most fun. I have attached some examples of these, which can generate random patterns which can be adjusted for various effects using the fairly simple language of Python.
I have used this to do all sorts of things. Ie. generate unique business cards, which can be changed randomly for various backgrounds. A sample of two of these is below, which I rework with suitable text.
Another is the MAC program I use called Grapher 1.1, which has a simple interface and can even generate Quicktime movies. The example here is a flower-shape setting the boundary conditions and generating the various iteration variables. (See Flower image)
I have also experimented some graphic artwork by combining graphic and image editors, like example of the spiral images with the mustard yellow background. (See example.)
I like the wormhole!
I think I used). I have Mathcad 13 now... I have no idea how much it's capable of, but I would only be capable of using a fraction of a percent of what it could do!
Art for Art Sake...
