[SnapPea-planning] SnapPy 1.0

[Nathan Dunfield]

Dear all,

Marc Culler and I are pleased to announce SnapPy 1.0, a computer  
program for studying hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds. It is based  
on Jeff Weeks’ SnapPea kernel from his very influential program of the  
same name, written in the early 1990s for Macintosh computers. While  
Jeff’s program doesn’t work (except in emulation) on any computer you  
can buy today, SnapPy runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. SnapPy  
combines a link editor and 3D-graphics for Dirichlet domains and cusp  
neighborhoods with a powerful command-line interface based on the  
Python programming language.

You can download it from here

http://www.math.uic.edu/~t3m/SnapPy/doc

where you can also find documentation, including links to video  
tutorials on YouTube.  There is also a blog announcement here:

http://ldtopology.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/snappy-computing-with-hyperbolic-3-manifolds-for-fun-and-profit/

SnapPy was written by Marc Culler and Nathan Dunfield, using Jeff’s  
kernel code, and today we released version 1.0 (superseding 1.0a and  
1.0b).

	Best,

	Nathan