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plot3d giving no output, just a blank canvas

asked 2022-02-06 19:58:18 +0100

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updated 2022-02-07 08:14:10 +0100

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I was trying to use SageMath to make a 3d plot. I tried some example plots from the SageMath website like:

x, y = var('x, y')
plot3d(x^2 + y^2, (-1,3),(-1,3))

Sage does open a plot in firefox, but it's just a black rectangle. I think there is some missing dependency somewhere but I have no clue on how to diagnose a problem like that.

I am on Pop OS 21.10 (an Ubuntu based distro) and had installed sage directly from the debian repositories. The version of sage is 9.2 and I am using python 3.9.7. Apt says that I am on the latest update for Sage.

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slelievre gravatar imageslelievre ( 2022-02-07 00:37:36 +0100 )edit

I would try to install SageMath 9.5 from source.

slelievre gravatar imageslelievre ( 2022-02-07 00:39:44 +0100 )edit

Could you try your code with https://sagecell.sagemath.org/ to see if the error is caused by Firefox? (I can see the output of your code in my Firefox.)

tolga gravatar imagetolga ( 2022-02-08 18:35:16 +0100 )edit

@tolga thanks for the link. The code does seem to work in my firefox as well. Its most definitely the bug as stated by the answer below and I will try and build the latest version from source.

mnase gravatar imagemnase ( 2022-02-09 13:19:27 +0100 )edit

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answered 2022-02-08 10:34:10 +0100

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updated 2022-02-08 10:34:47 +0100

You are facing a bug in SageMath 9.2, which has been corrected since then. As pointed in @slelievre 's comments, it's recommended to install the latest stable version of SageMath (9.5) from source. This is easy on Ubuntu-based systems, simply follow these steps (this is for Ubuntu 20.04 but it should work on your system).

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