Hello,
It depends on how you want to make graphing accessible, do you mean
for you drawing or do you mean for you to view?
Starting with how you can view: As this is a list related to Linux,
I will start by mentioning MathTrax available from NASA (sorry don't
have the website to hand but a quick search for MathTrax should find
it), if you download the version they label as being for the Mac,
that will work on Linux. This can either graph a equation or plot a
graph from a text based data file. Another solution although for
windows, would be the audio graphing calculator from ViewPlus
(www.viewplus.com). As far as I know both of these only deal with 2D
plots, a 3D plot like a surface plot I don't know of such a solution
(well at least a computer based solution).
As for you drawing graphs: Well LaTeX might be able to help, there
are loads of packages for LaTeX and some deal with producing
graphics and specific types of diagrams. You may want to look at the
wikibooks book on LaTeX (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX) which
has some information on PGF/TikZ which is a general drawing package
but others build on PGF/TikZ to provide packages specific for
drawing certain types of diagram.
Another solution, may be better for what you want, is gnuplot
(available for Linux, your distro probably has a package for it so
search your package manager for gnuplot). This is specific for
drawing graphs, including 3D plots and as memory goes you can get it
to plot from an equation or from a text based data file. There are
various front ends for using gnuplot, I remember using a GTK based
one in the past (it did limit the functionality of gnuplot but for
basic stuff did make it easier to use) and there is also a LaTeX
package should you want to use it from LaTeX.
Of course there are many more tools out there, certainly for
drawing, I have mentioned some which I have used.
I hope this has helped.
Michael Whapples
On 10/05/2012 14:47, Andy B. wrote:
Hi.
This might be slightly OT, but I am going
to take a college level algebra series soon. We are trying to
figure out how to make graphing and charting
equations/formulas accessible. Someone mentioned latex, but I
don’t know how to do that. Is there anything I can do to get
through this math class?
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