most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-24T01:52:25Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/3283 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3283/are-there-good-programs-to-create-mathematical-pictures-in-svg-format Grétar Amazeen 2009-10-29T16:38:43Z 2012-10-29T17:53:41Z

<p>I've recently started my personal wiki to organize my notes and thoughts. I use the wiki program instiki which I believe is the same as the n-lab uses. Instiki can upload <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable%5FVector%5FGraphics" rel="nofollow">svg</a>'s. I want to be able to create nice looking pictures of some (not to complicated) geometric objects, e.g. knots, pair of pants, etc. My question is twofold.</p> <ol> <li><p>Do people draw these things using svg format? For example people who do diagram algebra, do you use svg format?</p></li> <li><p>If so, what are some good free/open source programs for creating these pictures?</p></li> </ol>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3283/are-there-good-programs-to-create-mathematical-pictures-in-svg-format/3287#3287 Andy Putman 2009-10-29T16:56:26Z 2009-10-29T16:56:26Z

<p>I am a huge fan of the open source program <a href="http://www.inkscape.org" rel="nofollow">Inkscape</a>. I mostly use it to produce pictures for my papers in the eps format, but its native format is svg.</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3283/are-there-good-programs-to-create-mathematical-pictures-in-svg-format/3305#3305 Alon Amit 2009-10-29T18:07:12Z 2009-10-29T18:07:12Z

<p><a href="http://www.geogebra.org/cms/" rel="nofollow">GeoGebra</a> has .SVG export, and is fantastically useful for certain types of diagrams - not so much knots and pairs of pants, but more like graphs of functions, geometric shapes etc. Granted, its real strength is in interactive demos (like <a href="http://www.geogebra.org/en/examples/function%5Fslope/function%5Fslope1.html" rel="nofollow">this one</a>), but sometimes it's useful just to generate static images. </p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3283/are-there-good-programs-to-create-mathematical-pictures-in-svg-format/3317#3317 rita the dog 2009-10-29T19:14:56Z 2009-10-29T19:14:56Z

<p>Its been a couple of years since I used SVG. At the time I looked at sample SVG files to see how to code basic stuff, and hand coded with some parts generated by small ad hoc programs. The images were geometric diagrams. My concern at the time was that many people use Internet Explorer as a browser, and it does NOT support SVG. The plugin, by Adobe, that allows IE to read SVG is probably not installed on many computers. And Adobe has now dropped all support of that plugin. To me, this meant, that to make the stuff generally viewable I needed to convert the SVG to fixed size bitmap, e.g. png files. That seemed to defeat the whole purpose of SVG, which for me was to allow users to zoom in on fine details of a figure without loosing resolution. [Sorry that doesn't really answer your question, but it seemed important to mention my concerns with SVG. If the situation is now different, I would be interested to know that.]</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3283/are-there-good-programs-to-create-mathematical-pictures-in-svg-format/3327#3327 David Eppstein 2009-10-29T20:02:02Z 2009-10-29T20:02:02Z

<p>I use SVG frequently for mathematical diagrams in Wikipedia (<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:David_Eppstein/Gallery" rel="nofollow">gallery</a>) — for the illustrations my own papers I usually use pdf. In both cases I generally use Adobe Illustrator. It's not cheap and it's not easy to learn, but it's quite powerful.</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3283/are-there-good-programs-to-create-mathematical-pictures-in-svg-format/3342#3342 Richard Kent 2009-10-29T21:32:55Z 2009-10-29T21:32:55Z

<p>I use <a href="http://www.freeverse.com/mac/product/?id=6020" rel="nofollow" title="lineform">lineform</a> to draw all of my figures. It's like an intuitive scaled down version of Illustrator that doesn't cost a fortune (though it does cost $80). You can export to svg, png, pdf, ps, et cetera.</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3283/are-there-good-programs-to-create-mathematical-pictures-in-svg-format/48833#48833 F. C. 2010-12-09T21:28:41Z 2010-12-09T21:28:41Z

<p><strong>Sage</strong>, which is free and open source, is able to output svg files, but the result is sometimes not really nice.</p> <p>I do not know whether <strong>Maple</strong> or <strong>Mathematica</strong> (which are not free) can do this.</p> <p>I am also using the basic editor <strong>xfig</strong> to create simple svg files, but <strong>inkscape</strong> is more powerful.</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3283/are-there-good-programs-to-create-mathematical-pictures-in-svg-format/111016#111016 Mikhail 2012-10-29T17:53:41Z 2012-10-29T17:53:41Z

<p>i wrote small script to paint math functions in SVG, please feel free to use it <a href="http://webdev.ts9.ru/#/step-4" rel="nofollow">http://webdev.ts9.ru/#/step-4</a></p>