Bug#409077: ITP: surf -- A visualization tool for real algebraic geometry
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <jordigh@gmail.com>
* Package name : surf
Version : 1.0.4
Upstream Author : Johannes Beigel <jojo@users.sourceforge.net>
* URL : http://surf.sourceforge.net
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C++
Description : A visualization tool for real algebraic geometry
From the project page (http://surf.sourceforge.net):
surf is a tool to visualize some real algebraic geometry: plane
algebraic curves, algebraic surfaces and hyperplane sections of
surfaces. surf is script driven and has (optionally) a nifty GUI using
the Gtk widget set.
The algorithms should be stable enough not to be confused by
curve/surface singularities in codimension greater than one and the
degree of the surface or curve. This has been achieved quite a bit. We
have drawn curves of degree up to 30 and surfaces of degree up to 20
successfully. However, there are examples of curves/surfaces of lower
degree where surf fails to produce perfect images. This happens
especially if the equation of the curve/surface is not reduced. Best
results are achieved using reduced equations. On the other hand, surf
displays the Fermat-curves accurately for degree up to 98.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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