Archive - December, 2006

Superficies

I recently came across Superficies, a very nice tool for exploring surfaces and differential geometry concepts that I wanted to share. Here’s a link to its english manual that will give you an idea of the program’s features.

This is GPLed software written in Delphi and although binaries are only available for Windows I had no problem running it under Linux using Wine.

Quick way to use mimetex with SMF

SMF is a nice web forum package but it doesn’t display mathematics by default. If you want it to render LaTeX, one option is to use mimetex. Here is a quick patch to enable [tex]…[/tex] tags in SMF version 1.1. You can get the latest updates to this patch with:

darcs get http://darcs.superadditive.com/smf-mimetex