[SnapPea-planning] priorities

[Nathaniel Thurston]

Does Sage have support for graphics?  My dream of the way the interface
should be is a notebook in which Snappea returns a Dirchlet domain
as a result of a snappea command, and then you could navigate in
hyperbolic space in the notebook.  The cusp view and link editor could  
be similar.

... and if Sage doesn't have these features, it *should*.  Maybe the  
first priority
should be to perform "graphics integration" with Sage,
including any necessary extensions to Sage.

On 27 Apr 2009, at 21:45, Nathan Dunfield wrote:
>
> Sage is really very cool, though on the surface the idea behind it
> seems implausible.  Basically it's an amalgam of very large number of
> open-source mathematics packages (PARI, GAP, Singular, Maxima, GMP,
> NTL, and many more) using Python as the glue.   As a result, it has
> the broadest range of any system I know (calculus to number theory to
> cohomology), and the choice of using a mainstream programming language
> rather than a custom one turns out to very useful.   It includes a  
> web-
> browser based notebook interface which you can also use with any of
> the underlying components (so if you ever wanted to use GAP from a
> Mathematica-like notebook Sage allows you to do this).  It does have
> some rough edges and is under constant development, but despite this
> it has become the tool I always try first for almost any project...