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2012-10-05 03:05:06 +0100 marked best answer Piece-wise functions and plotting

It seems that this version does not ignore the x*y case:

p=contour_plot(lambda x,y: F(x,y), (x,0,1), (y,0,1) )
p.show()

Lambda is not necessary:

def F(x,y):
    if( x <= y ):
        return x*y
    return x+y

contour_plot( F, (x,0,1), (y,0,1) ).show()
2012-10-05 03:04:39 +0100 commented answer Piece-wise functions and plotting

Ah, thanks!... In my code, I had some nested transformations going on, so I didn't pass just the function handle. Now this works, unfortunately, it takes me back to the very poor performance which makes it impractical to put it in an @interact environment

2012-10-03 10:06:31 +0100 commented question Piece-wise functions and plotting

Also, I just found out that Sage has the kronecker_delta function, so one could rewrite the above example as a product of two pieces, however, in my case I actually have three pieces and I would still need to find an appropriate transformation to map the pieces to non-overlapping conditions where the delta function would be 1 for exactly one of them. While possible, this is really not elegant. Any other thoughts?

2012-10-03 10:06:23 +0100 commented question Piece-wise functions and plotting

Yes, for one-dimensional piecewise functions that would work, but for two-dimensional or more, it would not, I am afraid.

2012-10-03 09:44:10 +0100 commented answer Piece-wise functions and plotting

This is a good answer in that it works, the problem now is about efficiency. If I do this with my actual function (which is a bit more complicated that the one in the example) then it takes 30 seconds to render. If I try to get fancy and make: P = lambda x,y: F(x,y); p=contour_plot( P(x,y), (x,0,1), (y,0,1) ); p.show(); Now it doesn't work again!

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2012-10-02 11:20:42 +0100 asked a question Piece-wise functions and plotting

Hi,

I have a piece-wise defined function that I want to plot (and potentially do other symbolic stuff with) and I was wondering how to do this. The problem is that I am defining my function as a Python function:

def F(x,y):
    if( x <= y ):
        return x*y
    return x+y

So I am gluing together two pieces, and I would like to be able to do

(x,y) = var('x,y')
contour_plot( F(x,y), (x,0,1), (y,0,1) )

But the problem is that this only plots the second part. This occurs because x <= y evaluates as false (they are variables) and F(x,y) is always evaluated as x+y. In Mathematica there is the Which function that works on symbolic expression to make piece-wise definitions. Is there an equivalent in Sage? Is there another way to do this? If I had a function (say, delta) that just evaluated as 1 if the symbolic expression was true, and 0 if not, I could craft the function as:

F(x,y) = delta( x<=y ) * (x*y) + delta( x>y ) * (x+y)

But as it is, I think there is no way to do this. Is there?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Edgar