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Re: Desmos 3D graphing calculator

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Post by titaniumtown »

Desmos is the best, free (as in cost) and easily accessible graphing calculator out there. I wish it was opensource though. I've even tried to make an alternative and it's really hard to match their functionality (or I'm just inexperienced). I hope an opensource alternative crops up.

Edit: Seems there has https://www.geogebra.org/

Re: Desmos 3D graphing calculator

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Post by HeWhoLurksLate »

Desmos is honestly probably one of the best things to come out of the web- it's an impressive tool and I am truly thankful for all the insight it's given me in my mathematics classes. Super stoked to see what bananas things the desmos community makes with this!

Re: Desmos 3D graphing calculator

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Post by knlje »

titaniumtown wrote: post #2

Desmos is the best, free (as in cost) and easily accessible graphing calculator out there. I wish it was opensource though. I've even tried to make an alternative and it's really hard to match their functionality (or I'm just inexperienced). I hope an opensource alternative crops up. Edit: Seems there has https://www.geogebra.org/

I've been using GeoGebra for years. I have tried Desmos twice but couldn't immediately spot the differences. What are the benefits of Desmos over GeoGebra?

Re: Desmos 3D graphing calculator

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Post by amanj41 »

WhereIsTheTruth wrote: post #3

Wow this is painfully slow, the CPU usage for rotating the scene is insane, I can't look at the code right now but wow.. I expect better from them EDIT: If you are using Chrome, make sure you are on the latest version, the latest v118 fixed it for me

Could you share what function you plotted? A very simple z = x^2 + y^2 worked fine so I'm curious where its limits are

Re: Desmos 3D graphing calculator

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Post by titaniumtown »

knlje wrote: post #5
titaniumtown wrote: post #2

Desmos is the best, free (as in cost) and easily accessible graphing calculator out there. I wish it was opensource though. I've even tried to make an alternative and it's really hard to match their functionality (or I'm just inexperienced). I hope an opensource alternative crops up. Edit: Seems there has https://www.geogebra.org/

I've been using GeoGebra for years. I have tried Desmos twice but couldn't immediately spot the differences. What are the benefits of Desmos over GeoGebra?

I haven't heard of GeoGebra before! Really cool. Thanks for pointing that out.

Re: Desmos 3D graphing calculator

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Post by namibj »

titaniumtown wrote: post #2

Desmos is the best, free (as in cost) and easily accessible graphing calculator out there. I wish it was opensource though. I've even tried to make an alternative and it's really hard to match their functionality (or I'm just inexperienced). I hope an opensource alternative crops up. Edit: Seems there has https://www.geogebra.org/

GeoGebra is the closest I know, at least when limiting to copyleft [or theoretically the SQLite model would be fine, but it's pretty unique in dependability and selflessness for open source projects not subject to copyleft] "middle/high school (constructive?) geometry & function graphing teaching aid" classroom-grade robustness: bored & curious children are somewhat creative in their play/"(ab)use" of teaching/classroom software: buggy/anti-intuitive software can't survive the combination of:

- bored curious children playing around, bright and capable curious children exploring (way) beyond what the teacher explained, - normal students just getting by with the topic and relying on the software to aid their subject matter comprehension, - and teachers trying to plan lessons around it where they have to rely on it not needing a tutorial because there wouldn't really be time for such in the curriculum schedule.

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