Math Algebra animation tool

I’m very new to Blender. Wonder how easy one can use it to create animation for Algebra, like plotting an expression x²+3x-10.

Or anyone knows about a Blender plug-in or other open source tool for that?

I know a tool called Maple which is pretty good for that. But it’s not an open source tool.

Thanks!

Well, you could use the embedded python editor to plot pretty much anything you want, including that graph of x^2+3x-10. You’d have to grid the x values over the range you want and plot vertices at the (x,y,z) positions (x,x^2+3x-10,0) and connect them by a curve or so. You can also make animations that way, for example, if you want to change the coefficients of the equation in time, or if you want to do a camera fly-by of your graph.

Whether this is useful for you depends on your application. You could also try a free matlab-like program called scilab. Hope this helps, feel free to ask more! :slight_smile:

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Thanks, Vincert.
I’ll look into it more in the directions you suggested.

Jason