Bug 197226

Summary:	Circles, Ellipses, horizontal parabolas, and other non-function rules that can be plotted should be possible to plot
Product:	[Applications] kmplot	Reporter:	Deniz Akcal <gamingtechnology>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Klaus-Dieter M <kd.moeller>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	andrechalella, annma
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Deniz Akcal 2009-06-20 05:33:10 UTC

Version:           1.2.1 (using 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.26-2-amd64

Circles, Ellipses, horizontal parabolas, and other non-function rules that can be plotted should be possible to plot! In addition to this, step functions (=greatest integer functions) are FUNCTIONS but they cannot be plotted. I don't know why this is exactly but my tutor's graphing calculator cannot plot step functions either while this other student's graphing calculator can! I don't have a graphing calculator and even if I did, I rely excessively on kmplot for learning the effects of the parameters in rules. I know for example circles can be split into two functions and when you plot both, you get a circle, however this should not be required.

So please add support for such things! Additionally, I would like to thank the developpers for their hard work thus far!

-Deniz

Comment 1 André Neves 2009-07-26 07:02:54 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Version:           1.2.1 (using 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2), Debian packages)
> Compiler:          cc
> OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.26-2-amd64
> 
> Circles, Ellipses, horizontal parabolas, and other non-function rules that can
> be plotted should be possible to plot! In addition to this, step functions
> (=greatest integer functions) are FUNCTIONS but they cannot be plotted. I don't
> know why this is exactly but my tutor's graphing calculator cannot plot step
> functions either while this other student's graphing calculator can! I don't
> have a graphing calculator and even if I did, I rely excessively on kmplot for
> learning the effects of the parameters in rules. I know for example circles can
> be split into two functions and when you plot both, you get a circle, however
> this should not be required.
> 
> So please add support for such things! Additionally, I would like to thank the
> developpers for their hard work thus far!
> 
> -Deniz

This is totally possible today. Learn to use Implicit Plots.

Comment 2 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2009-10-03 21:20:32 UTC

I think this can be closed.