[SnapPea-planning] SnapPy 1.0

[Nathaniel Thurston]

Hi Nathan,

I wanted to let you know that you, dylan, and I are the only people on  
the snappea-announce mailing list.  So, everyone you wanted to reach  
by posting got it from the snappea-planning list.

Best,
	Nathaniel

On 24 Aug 2009, at 20:39, Nathan Dunfield wrote:

> 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
>
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