Sage includes [Jmol], an open source package which
does beautiful 3d plots. Here are a few examples (do not type the
...):
Yellow Whitney's umbrella http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_umbrella:
sage: u, v = var('u,v')
sage: fx = u*v
sage: fy = u
sage: fz = v^2
sage: P = parametric_plot3d([fx, fy, fz], (u, -1, 1), (v, -1, 1),\
... frame=False, color="yellow")
Cross cap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cap:
sage: u, v = var('u,v')
sage: fx = (1+cos(v))*cos(u)
sage: fy = (1+cos(v))*sin(u)
sage: fz = -tanh((2/3)*(u-pi))*sin(v)
sage: P = parametric_plot3d([fx, fy, fz], (u, 0, 2*pi), (v, 0, 2*pi),\
... frame=False, color="red")
Twisted torus:
sage: u, v = var('u,v')
sage: fx = (3+sin(v)+cos(u))*cos(2*v)
sage: fy = (3+sin(v)+cos(u))*sin(2*v)
sage: fz = sin(u)+2*cos(v)
sage: P = parametric_plot3d([fx, fy, fz], (u, 0, 2*pi), (v, 0, 2*pi),\
... frame=False, color="red")
The command sage: show(P) can be used to
view this.
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