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Graphing Calculator was one of the delightfully “impossible” things I discovered in the hard disk of our brand new iMac back in 1998. I had just started using a
by krallja 4y ago
Graphing Calculator was one of the delightfully “impossible” things I discovered in the hard disk of our brand new iMac back in 1998. I had just started using a TI-83+ at school, so seeing a 3D full-color animatable graphing calculator with a beautiful equation editor slotted directly into my brain as “this shouldn’t be possible! yet here it is!!” I have never found a real use for it, but always wish I could. I bought the iOS version when I found out about it to pay back the authors for my teen-aged delight.
The origin story is cool as heck, too. As discussed many many times on HN: http://pacifict.com/Story/ http://pacifict.com/Story/
- jonhohle 4y agoIf you need to include graphs or equations in a presentation or document, Graphing Calculator provides vectorized versions of both which scale and print beautifully. It’s been a while, but I wrote a few different “slow start” functions for a load balancer and used Graphing Calculator to not only illustrate the behavior, but also show which parameters were tunable.
- elcritch 4y agoOh can it output SVG?
- jonhohle 4y agoBy default EPS, PDF, and TIFF but I haven’t checked the clipboard types to see if there are any other vector formats.
- avitzur 4y agoApplications / Utilities / Grapher is a different application (formerly Curvus Pro X from Arizona Software) which replaced the original Mac OS 7 Apple menu Graphing Calculator because I was very slow porting to Mac OS X.
- noisy_boy 4y agoI browse HN almost daily but have never seen that story. It was wonderful - thanks for sharing.