Comments on: Fooplot: function plotting

By: Narayana

Narayana — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:08:14 +0000

Really cool site.
http://nchikkam.blogspot.com/2007/06/fooplot-is-really-cool.html

By: Narayana

Narayana — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:20:09 +0000

Really cool site.

By: Chad Wagner

Chad Wagner — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:28:13 +0000

Very good use of javascript to do projections of 3-D functions into 2-D. I think it uses decomposition of some sort, but rough on the math. Lovely! Especially cools is that you can type in the URL http://www.fooplot.com/3*x/sin(y) and get a graph for 3x/sin(y)… sweet!

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:08:38 +0000

Email still not working! Here’s some more comments:

1) Add a blog so people can see latest news, leave comments, etc. An
email address doesn’t cut it these days ;)

2) A “Permalink To This” link…

3) Your direct-linking fooplot.com/ is really innovative but
I think you need to expand this API (or at least make it all public).
Anything that I can do in the tool UI should be an option in the URL
(i.e. an option in the URL to specify the graph minx/maxx/miny/maxy,
etc).

By: Andi

Andi — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:58:30 +0000

Does not work at all in IE, but it works in Opera, thats nice to see. The 3D functions are amazing, I’d like to see the zoom working, too. I hope you go on, a really nice tool.

By: Mukul Kumar

Mukul Kumar — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:34:03 +0000

Very neat! I posted some comments on:
http://mukulblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/fooplot-is-neat.html

By: carmen

carmen — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:47:41 +0000

no, it would be less compatible if done in flash, then it would only run on the flash platform, instead of the web platform.

i cant find the download link,. is it back to GNUplot?

By: Blake Fischer

Blake Fischer — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:16:32 +0000

I don’t get why there’s such a push behind graphing in the browser.

Wouldn’t this be more easier to make/cross-browser compatible/pretty/usable if it was done in flash?

By: dheera [fooplot]

dheera [fooplot] — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:01:30 +0000

Hi Jeff,
thanks for the note. yeah, the MX was changed a day ago, so perhaps it hasn’t propagated yet everywhere. I am aware of the nightlies supporting SVG in Safari, but I expect it to take a while for a release to propagate to majority usage as usual. The only reason I said 1.7 is that I’ve been using it to test and also that (quite surprisingly) I have found numerous people that have copies of FireFox 1.5.0.5 without SVG support, for whatever reason. I can’t identify why, but perhaps one of the major binary sources may have disabled it in compiling? They do report the canvas tag working, though.

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:37:13 +0000

Nice, but their email address doesn’t yet work… here is the email I wrote to them:

Dear FooPlotters,

Firefox 1.7?!? I assume you mean Firefox 1.5. I wouldn’t too much about being
compatible with Firefox 1.0-, that’s probably something like less than 10% of
Firefox users, anyway.

Safari on the other hand, using canvas sounds like a good idea.
Although I also assume you are aware that Safari nightlies support
SVG, correct?

Thanks,
Jeff

By: James Ward

James Ward — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:03:06 +0000

This is a cool idea! But I can’t get it to graph anything. Anyone else having problems with this in Firefox 2 on Linux?