Sage Plotting and Graphics

Sage has a wide range of capabilities for visualizing mathematics. It can produce 2-D as well as 3-D graphics, and even animated plots. The wiki contains some examples of images that can be drawn using Sage.

Interact

Interact provides an interactive tool to dynamically visualize the impact of parameters on calculations. This is done in a very general way using the basic functionality of Python. Therefore nearly every possible dependency could be shown. The following animation shows a slider on top, which can be dragged in the real case - the plot is then updated accordingly. - see the wiki for more examples
interact animation in Sage

Regions Plot / Contours

A Region Plot draws those regions, where the given equality, inequality or set of them is true.
$$\huge{\frac{sin(x^2 + y^2)}{(1+y+x y)} > 0}$$
Sage Regions Plot 
sage: var('x y')
sage: region_plot(sin(x^2 + y^2)/(1+y+x*y) > 0, (-5,5), (-5,5), ...
      incol='#ffff7f', outcol='#7f7fff', bordercol='black', ...
      plot_points=300).show(aspect_ratio=1)

Density Plot

Density Plot of a two dimensional function.
$$\large{sin(x^2 + y^2) * cos(x+y^2) * sin(y)}$$
Sage Density Plot 
sage: density_plot(sin(x^2 + y^2) * cos(x+y^2) * sin(y), (-4, 4), (-4, 4), ...
      cmap='jet', plot_points=100).show(figsize=(6,6), frame=True)

Filled Plots

A Filled Plot visualizing approximations of $$\large{f(x) = \frac{1}{1 + 25 x^2}}$$.
Sage Filled Plot
sage: def f(x):
....:    return RDF(1 / (1 + 25 * x^2))
....: 
sage: def runge():
....:       g = plot(f, -1, 1, rgbcolor='red', thickness=1)
....:     polynom = []
....:     for i, n in enumerate([6, 8, 10, 12]):
....:       data = [(x, f(x)) for x in xsrange(-1, 1, 2 / (n - 1), ...
                include_endpoint=True)]
....:       polynom.append(maxima.lagrange(data).sage())
....:       g += list_plot(data, rgbcolor='black', pointsize=5)
....:     g += plot(polynom, -1, 1, fill=f, fillalpha=0.2, thickness=0)
....:     return g
....: 
sage: runge().show(ymin=0, ymax=1, figsize=(6,4))

Multiedge Graph

A Multiedge Graph visualizing all pairs of characters in the sentence "I am a cool multiedge graph with loops".
Sage Multiedge Graph
sage: stnc = 'I am a cool multiedge graph with loops'
sage: g = DiGraph({}, loops=True, multiedges=True)
sage: for a,b in [(stnc[i], stnc[i+1]) for i in xrange(len(stnc)-1)]:
....:    g.add_edge(a, b, b)
sage: g.plot(color_by_label=True, edge_style='solid').show(figsize=(8,8))
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