Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Lybniz vs KAlgebra for graph visualization/plotting

In my work I sometimes need to quickly visualize a simple function, and software like Mathematica and Maxima seem to be a bit of overkill so I decided to try some simple plotting programs in Ubuntu from the SC.

The first, which I have evaluated before, is KAlgebra.  It's not too bad and has an upside in that it can also do calculations.  However, I don't really like the plot style.   This is an example for \( \sin^2 x \cos^2 x \).


So I typed in "graph" or "plot" in the SC and cam across the Lybniz graph plotting software.  It only plots  so it doesn't calculate like KAlgebra can and then show you a graph.  I like how Lybniz looks better than KAlgebra.  It doesn't have many options.  I wish you could thicken the line a bit, but it does let you zoom in better than KAlgebra.  Same example.



2 comments:

  1. Hi,
    I'm Aleix, KAlgebra's developer.

    If you have ideas on how to improve the plotting, please send me an e-mail :)

    Cheers!

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  2. I like lybniz, too, but it is so annoying it does not have an option to save the plots in any graphic format, seemingly.

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