Graphic facilities

Basic facilities support the display of an arbitrary number of curves, surfaces, polygons, and text. Surfaces may be displayed in various styles, e.g. with hidden line removal, gray scale shading, color shading. Shaded surfaces can include contours, grids, lighting, etc. Also support for 2 and 3D frame sequence animation. Hardcopy output is available for a variety of printers and may be included in a Maple worksheet. Specific plots (all programmed in Maple) include

• Curves in cartesian, and polar co-ordinates,

• Surfaces in cartesian, cylindrical or spherical co-ordinates,

• Curves and surfaces defined parametrically or implicitly as the solution of a polynomial equation,

• Contour plots, log plots, density plots, conformal plots, vector plots,

• Phase portraits and direction field plots, plotting of systems of first order ODE's