Inspired by conversations with Elias Wegert and Frank Farris at the Illustrating Mathematics semester program at ICERM last year, I wrote several plotting libraries for complex plotting. I wrote them with the intention of plotting modular forms in a variety of ways, leading to my talk at Bowdoin in November 2019 and my first post on the CS arxiv.1 1and when I learned that arxiv editors read papers close enough to reclassify them.
I've gotten several requests to make these plotting libraries available, and so I've made davidlowryduda/phase_mag_plot available on github as a sage library. See the github page and README for examples and up-to-date information.
This version is capable of producing contour-type plots of complex functions.
This does not include any colormap capability yet, as that is a substantially more involved2 2perhaps to be read as "hacky" in my current implementation process. But at some point in the future, I intend to look at revisiting the complex plotting within sage itself, perhaps updating it to allow plots of this nature.
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2021-02-25 Jan van Delden
I took the liberty to download your SageMath module and changed a few options.
Since I was not completely clear on the interaction between lightness and color (defined by the argument of the function to be displayed) I decided to weigh these differently. Color, from the colorwheel by 0.8 and lightness by 0.2. I computed the color first and weighed later. Changed the modulus operation to argument-floor(argument) to solve a problem for arguments near 0. Added the option to choose the number of subdivisions which are used to stress particular moduli or phases.
I read both books, love them, and already implemented the extended phase portrait into Maple, c (including domain coloring in general) and Ultra Fractal. Since it was time to learn sage and had to learn how to program, I used your module as my first project. And as you stated: it is time to learn how to incorporate a module into sage, without having to load it. No idea yet, but onwards we go...
2021-02-25 davidlworyduda
I'm glad to hear it! I would also read issues or pull requests on github.
I think it would not be particularly hard to incorporate this into official sage. I have a local build of sage that includes a variant of phase_mag_plot as the default complex_plot. There are a few additional usability things I need to do before submitting this to the official sage.
I'd also like to write the general colormap functionality in a good way to be included too, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
To learn more about contributing directly to sage (which is fun and exciting, and there are several great programmers who routinely contribute), check out https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/index.html.