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Sqrt(xx+yy)+3cos(sqrt(xx+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20

692 points by ing33k 15y ago

postfuturist 15y ago
This works great in Firefox 11. It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux). EDIT: I really doesn't work because "NVIDIA cards with nouveau drivers in Linux are crash-prone." Firefox has no trouble, strangely.
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- naner 15y ago
  This works great in Firefox 11. It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux). I am also using Firefox on Linux and was actually suprised this worked. I assumed WebGL was still disabled by default for us.
  - nkassis 15y ago
    Nope it's been on for a while but it will only work if you have good OpenGL drivers. (About ~50% of Linux users who try are able to view WebGL content from mozilla's numbers).
- cleaver 15y ago
  OSX 10.7 and Chrome 18 is OK.
- valinor4 15y ago
  I have Chromium 17 on Ubuntu (WebGl desactivated) and it works.
- wolf550e 15y ago
  You can enable it in about:flags
  - drivebyacct2 15y ago
    Actually the thing in about:flags to to "enable" the "disabling" of WebGl.
    - StavrosK 15y ago
      No, you need to disable the disabling. Still doesn't work for me, though.
- Foy 15y ago
  Not working in Opera 11.62 Shame that my favourite browser doesn't support WebGL. :( But props to Google for making their search engine that much cooler.
  - joliveira 15y ago
    If you want to see it with Opera try the 12 alpha. Just did and it is working perfectly.
- huhtenberg 15y ago
  > 3D charts require a web browser and system that support WebGL. Courtesy of Firefox 11. (edit) Apparently webgl.force-enabled needs to be set to true in about:config, and then it works.
  - unreal37 15y ago
    Thanks for this tip. It wasn't working in Firefox 6, but then flipping the flag fixed it.
- drivebyacct2 15y ago
  >It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux). WebGL is definitely not disabled. You either disabled it or your GPU is not on the whitelist (or is on the blacklist).
  - postfuturist 15y ago
    According to chrome://gpu: >WebGL: Unavailable. Hardware acceleration unavailable Chrome sadness.
    - drivebyacct2 15y ago
      I will say it's strange that Chrome thinks your computer is incapable but Firefox 11 is able to perform the task. It may be a bug with Chrome worth looking into.
- reedlaw 15y ago
  It works for me in Chrome 18 under Ubuntu 12.04.
- why-el 15y ago
  Ubuntu 11.10 and Firefox 11. Works like a charm.
  - yaix 15y ago
    Same here. Chrome doesn't. However, since it's on an eeePC netbook the animations way to slow to be useful.
- lloeki 15y ago
  Works fine in Safari too. Don't forget to Enable WebGL in the Develop menu (itself activated in the Advanced tab of Safari's Preferences)
- postfuturist 15y ago
  After fiddling with about:flags and using --ignore-gpu-blacklist on the command line, I got chrome://gpu to report that WebGL is fully enabled. It _still_ doesn't work, with this error reported in the console: [75:75:1827873622829:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy.cc(110)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize.
  - wolf550e 15y ago
    I suppose you need the latest mesa and drm. It works great here, but I'm running code from git.
- Florin_Andrei 15y ago
  > It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux). Chrome 18 on Ubuntu 11.04 with real crappy Intel Mobile 4 Chipset and it works.
luser001 15y ago
Am I missing something? What's the significance of this link?
- ordinary 15y ago
  It's pretty. That's all, I think.
- zobzu 15y ago
  showing off google's webgl rendering of equations in search its neat
- sylvinus 15y ago
  With latest Chrome, you get a nice 3d viz of the result.
  - justincormack 15y ago
    Not on Android Chrome alas.
    - artursapek 15y ago
      Is WebGL on Android Chrome at all? I have barely ever touched an Android phone. I imagine Google is working hard to port it to Android if it's not.
      - justincormack 15y ago
        Actually seems it is not yet.
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- ars 15y ago
  Screenshot: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/googlegraph.png/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/googlegraph.png/ On the website it rotates automatically and you can also control it manually, it's not static like in the screenshot.
necenzurat 15y ago
is that a sombrero?
- starwed 15y ago
  Nah, you must be thinking of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_hat_potential#A_pedagogical_example:_the_Mexican_hat_potential http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_hat_potential#A_pedagog...
- guygurari 15y ago
  No, but this is. http://www.google.co.il/search?q=5000-140*%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B%28x*x%2By*y%29^2 http://www.google.co.il/search?q=5000-140*%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B...
  - cynwoody 15y ago
    I think you get Post of Thread!
- utexaspunk 15y ago
  It's more like a Devo hat...
MyNewAccount 15y ago
very cool. what i made for the lulz: https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=sqrt(x*x%2By*y*y)%2B3*cos(sqrt(x*x%2By*y))%2B7 https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=sqrt(x*...
- tensafefrogs 15y ago
  Haha I was about to post the same thing. sqrt(xx+yyy)+3cos(sqrt(xx+yy))+5
  - nsns 15y ago
    Or even - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&q=sin%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y*y%29%29%2Bcos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29*2%2Bsqrt%28cos%28x*x*x%2By*y%29%29%2F1.7&oq=sin%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y*y%29%29%2Bcos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29*2%2Bsqrt%28cos%28x*x*x%2By*y%29%29%2F1.7&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...4340l5267l0l5382l3l3l0l0l0l0l245l313l1j0j1l2l0.frgbld https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&#....
    - MyNewAccount 15y ago
      you have too much time on your hands my friend
sceaj 15y ago
One of the differentiating factors of Wolfram|Alpha: Gone. Google's doesn't require a 250mb plugin to become interactive (just a webgl capable browser...). And it seems to be about 8 times faster than W|A... W|A still does a lot of things other sites don't do, but it tends to be unusably slow, and inconsistent (running same query twice in a row will sometimes not give all of the same results). I figure the end is probably closer than one might expect for W|A. They don't seem to be moving quick enough to stay infront of the curve forever. Also, the site is becoming littered with obtrusive ads, and that's a pretty negative experience. (I also hear Wolfram's company may be struggling.) This should have been praise for Google's new tool, but it turned into a rant on Wolfram|Alpha... whoops.
- smackfu 15y ago
  Of course, since this is a Google result, it can just fail and say "3D charts require a web browser and system that support WebGL." Which is super useful to me.
  - drivebyacct2 15y ago
    I can't tell if you're being sarcastic about it being super useful. If you are, it seems easier still to download Chrome to do a 3d render then it is to buy WA pro and download an apparently enormous plugin to do the same render
    - nkassis 15y ago
      He might mean that this computer doesn't have a card/driver combo capable of running WebGL. This is actually fairly common from test Mozilla has carried out. Successfull WebGL context creation on Windows were bellow 70% (can't find the actual page with the real numbers right now). But Chrome now supports software rendering through swiftshaders which should help those people. I for one agree with you, even with the issue of webgl capable hardware is much better than having to deal with huge plugins. (I'm biased, I use WebGL for my current work).
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driverdan 15y ago
Very cool. Worked for all equations I tried with x and/or y but not z. Also doesn't work with greek letters. Worked with f(x) but not ƒ(x) or f(x,y). Edit: Here's the official announcement http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/03/graphing-on-googlecom-now-in-3d.html http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/03/graphing-on-googlec...
darien 15y ago
If anyone is interested about WebGL and the latest news surrounding it, I run a blog at http://www.webgl.com http://www.webgl.com If you think it sucks, let me know.
huhtenberg 15y ago
This looks... erm ... neat. A "sophomore OpenGL term project" kind of neat. Wolfram on the other hand does the graphs right [0], which hardly surprising given their 20 years of head start. On a more general note, this reminds me of old Microsoft's tactics. Google should really stick to the search, but instead they throw together something that mimics competitor's feature. Something that looks more featureful and which is free, but upon closer inspection is effectively a half-ass effort, because it's an entirely different domain that's not their specialty. [0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29%2B5 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3...
- Florin_Andrei 15y ago
  I dunno. It's pretty, and it's good enough if you just want to gauge the overall shape of the curve, which is all I need most of the time.
- zorked 15y ago
  My bet is that this is supported by Google as a "here's a neat hack" feature, not as a "this is a vital feature in our ongoing to-the-death competition with Wolfram Alpha".
- drivebyacct2 15y ago
  [0] looks identical over the same ranges of x,y,z. http://goo.gl/pTrLh http://goo.gl/pTrLh Who cares if it's trivial? It's functional, fast, convenient and doesn't require a bunch of cruft. Kinda damages your quasi-rant to find out that you simply... didn't compare the graphs over the same interval. I don't know why every small feature that Google adds is either apparently out of fear of someone who's hardly a competitor or is proof that Google is the next Microsoft (which is a useless statement anyway). This all just reminds me how truly sad HN's markup is. I can't even escape the multiplication in the query for Google to get it to render properly (I replaced it with a Goo.gl link).
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mwsherman 15y ago
Interestingly, in Chrome 18, it puts about 2% load on my CPU, and 80% load on my GPU.
- oscardelben 15y ago
  It's webgl so it uses your graphic processor.
alexk7 15y ago
Hmm. No perspective.
nikcub 15y ago
any query that still only has a single answer I will still use wolfram (I use them all via the DDG bangs)
nsns 15y ago
Beautiful. Elasborations - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&q=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29%2B5*sin%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2&oq=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29%2B5*sin%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...3480l5221l0l5308l8l8l0l0l0l0l161l755l3j4l7l0.frgbld https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&#.... https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&q=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29-3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29-cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2%2Btan%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2&oq=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29-3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29-cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2%2Btan%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...20531l25258l1l25342l3l3l1l0l0l0l372l372l3-1l1l0.frgbld https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&#....
mjcohenw 15y ago
Nice. Also interesting is this: "About 274,000 results (0.15 seconds)".
tuananh 15y ago
Google is becoming more like Wolfram. Semantic search engine all the way to go.
nextstep 15y ago
Aw. Whatever this query does, it doesn't do it in Mobile Safari :(
Almaviva 15y ago
Oh man, change it to "sqrt(x * x + y * y * y)", and it looks like either boobs or ass, I'm not sure which!
Eduard 15y ago
si(x^2exp(xy*sinh(y^3+x^2))) doesn't work
janardanyri 15y ago
Word of caution: I left this open in a Safari tab without thinking about it, and soon found that my Mac's UI was hanging for ~20 seconds every minute or two. Took me half an hour to figure out what was going on.
sidcool 15y ago
It's beautiful!
tzz 15y ago
How does Google able to do this really fast? I mean even faster than a graphic calculator?
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- acak 15y ago
  Sorry. I don't know who down-voted you for what might be an innocent question. Google is calculating the set of values satisfying these equations on servers which are pretty fast - quite a bit faster than graph calculators.
- Tangaroa 15y ago
  The math and rendering is done client-side so it's your computer that is faster than a graphic calculator. Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/768/ http://xkcd.com/768/
btr41n 15y ago
When do you think Google search will be able to do the Batman Equation? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=batman+equation http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=batman+equation
- laconian 15y ago
  https://www.google.com/#q=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))%2F((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1%2Babs(abs(x)-3)%2F(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)%2B(4.5%2B0.75(abs(x-.5)%2Babs(x%2B.5))-2.75(abs(x-.75)%2Babs(x%2B.75)))(1%2Babs(1-abs(x))%2F(1-abs(x)))%2C-3sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)%2F(abs(x)-4))%2Cabs(x%2F2)-0.0913722(x%5E2)-3%2Bsqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)%5E2)%2C(2.71052%2B(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)%5E2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)%2F(abs(x)-1))&pbx=1&oq=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))%2F((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1%2Babs(abs(x)-3)%2F(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)%2B(4.5%2B0.75(abs(x-.5)%2Babs(x%2B.5))-2.75(abs(x-.75)%2Babs(x%2B.75)))(1%2Babs(1-abs(x))%2F(1-abs(x)))%2C-3sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)%2F(abs(x)-4))%2Cabs(x%2F2)-0.0913722(x%5E2)-3%2Bsqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)%5E2)%2C(2.71052%2B(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)%5E2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)%2F(abs(x)-1))&fp=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&cad=b https://www.google.com/#q=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x...
- laconian 15y ago
  https://www.google.com/#q=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))%2F((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1%2Babs(abs(x)-3)%2F(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)%2B(4.5%2B0.75(abs(x-.5)%2Babs(x%2B.5))-2.75(abs(x-.75)%2Babs(x%2B.75)))(1%2Babs(1-abs(x))%2F(1-abs(x)))%2C-3sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)%2F(abs(x)-4))%2Cabs(x%2F2)-0.0913722(x%5E2)-3%2Bsqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)%5E2)%2C(2.71052%2B(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)%5E2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)%2F(abs(x)-1))&pbx=1&oq=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))%2F((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1%2Babs(abs(x)-3)%2F(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)%2B(4.5%2B0.75(abs(x-.5)%2Babs(x%2B.5))-2.75(abs(x-.75)%2Babs(x%2B.75)))(1%2Babs(1-abs(x))%2F(1-abs(x)))%2C-3sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)%2F(abs(x)-4))%2Cabs(x%2F2)-0.0913722(x%5E2)-3%2Bsqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)%5E2)%2C(2.71052%2B(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)%5E2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)%2F(abs(x)-1))&fp=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&cad=b https://www.google.com/#q=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x...
- laconian 15y ago
forgetcolor 15y ago
doesn't work on my ipad, WA does.
hendler 15y ago
wanted to make something prettier: https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=sin(x*x%2By*y)%2B3*sin(cos(x*x%2By*y))%2B5&oq=sin(x*x%2By*y)%2B3*sin(cos(x*x%2By*y))%2B5&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=hp.3...752l752l1l985l1l1l0l0l0l0l71l71l1l1l0.frgbld.&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=3a4c3f9900aaf4a9&biw=1649&bih=864 https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&output=search...
cdvonstinkpot 15y ago
Clickable: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%285.5x%29*cos%285*y%29%2Bx*x%2B1&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%285.5x%29*cos%285*... https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1%2F%20sin%20abs%20x%20%2Bx%20-cos%20abs%20y%20%2By https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1%2F%20sin%2... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29%2B5&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=5000-140*%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B%28x*x%2By*y%29^2&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=5000-140*%28x*x%2By*y%... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%28x^2%2By^2%29%2F%28abs%28x*y%29%2B1%29+from+-2.5+to+2.5&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%28x^2%2By^2%29%2F%... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=tanh%28y%28y^4%2B5x^4-10%28x^2%29%28y^2%29%29%2F%28x^2%2By^2%29^4%29&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=tanh%28y%28y^4%2B5x^4-... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%28x^2%2B%28%283+y%29%2F2-%28x^2%2Babs%28x%29-6%29%2F%28x^2%2Babs%28x%29%2B2%29%29^2%29-36&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%28x^2%2B%28%283+y%29%... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%285.5x%29*cos%285*y%29%2Bx*x%2B1+x+is+from+-1+to+1%2C+y+is+from+-1+to+1%2C+z+is+from+0.1+to+2.8&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%285.5x%29*cos%285*... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=100-3%2F%28sqrt%28x^2%2By^2%29%29%2Bsin%28sqrt%28x^2%2By^2%29%29%2C+x+is+from+-10+to+10%2C+y+is+from+-10+to+10%2C+z+is+from+85+to+101&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=100-3%2F%28sqrt%28x^2%... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x^2-%28y-abs%28x%29%29^2%29%29*cos%2830*%28%281-x^2-%28y-abs%28x%29%29^2%29%29%29%2C+x+is+from+-1+to+1%2C+y+is+from+-1+to+1.5%2C+z+is+from+1+to+6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x^2... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=100-3%2F%28sqrt%28x^2%2By^2%29%29%2Bsin%28sqrt%28x^2%2By^2%29%29%2Bsqrt%28200-%28x^2%2By^2%29%2B10*sin%28x%29%2B10sin%28y%29%29%2F1000%2C+x+is+from+-15+to+15%2C+y+is+from+-15+to+15%2C+z+is+from+90+to+101&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=100-3%2F%28sqrt%28x^2%...
hsshah 15y ago
Purely for graphing, I like Desmos. Works great on iPad as well. https://www.desmos.com/calculator https://www.desmos.com/calculator
delan 15y ago
This is very nice; one addition that would make it even better is support for implicitly defined functions and relationships. If we could graph things like x^2+(y-x^(2/3))^2=1 directly, that'd be awesome.
wcarss 15y ago
I didn't see anyone mention this specific fear, but a lot of people talked about this in the context of competition with Wolfram Alpha. What I fear is that google (on purpose or not) will outshine Wolfram's offering, push W|A out of the game, and then in 3-6 years decide it is not a feature worth keeping up. Just like code search, viable companies may fail due to Google toying with their entire industry, and then Google may just drop us back to the stone age in terms of that category of product. The fact that this is a fear at all points (in my mind) to some issues of monopoly. Then again, maybe I'm just too cynical and worried.
- smokinn 15y ago
  I don't fear Google dropping us behind where we are, I fear another IE6. IE6 back in the day was actually quite good. But because it was really good (among other other more shady things) everything else died off and it stagnated. What I fear is google keeping us in a local maxima of search and having us stagnate there for a decade.
  - Iv 15y ago
    Don't worry. Little by little, politicians come up with ways that will make it impossible for google to continue its business...
    - kaens 15y ago
      I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but most of the possible meanings I can think of aren't ones that would really stop us from having google be an (unfortunate) local maxima of search for too long.
      - Iv 15y ago
        I am thinking of laws that make it unlawful to publish certain links with an arbitrary property (containing or linking to copyrighted material) or laws that prohibits it to publish the result of statistical analysis (the whole auto-suggest debate). Note also that everytime that Google changes its ranking algorithm, some companies complain because, as they paid for SEO, they feel entitled to a high google rank.
Big_Oh 15y ago
But I didn't want the graph, I wanted the minimum values!
yuletide666 15y ago
woah.
edwardy20 15y ago
I didn't have WebGL so I didn't get to see what all the hype was about at first. For the rest of you who are unlucky like me, here's a GIF a Redditor kindly posted: http://i.imgur.com/58mgx.gif http://i.imgur.com/58mgx.gif
rcfox 15y ago
It works beautifully on my Playbook.
blrgeek 15y ago
Feels like a gimmick... Something MS used to do well - take the shiniest feature of a competitor & implement it. The graph plot is just the tip of the iceberg - W|A does much much more, and Google might drop this in a few months if they don't see traction. I thought Page spoke to Jobs and got a lesson in 'focus' ? If Google really comes up with a viable competitor to W|A, with all the datasets, math, etc., that's one thing. Just copying the shiniest toy feature is a little dull...
drostie 15y ago
Thank you, Google, for making me uninstall some nVidia packages from Ubuntu that were apparently stopping WebGL from working. The tool you built is also kinda nifty, and I might even use it when trying to help people online with mathematics. Nonetheless, my day-to-day search traffic is still being offloaded to DuckDuckGo and my day-to-day image traffic is still going to Blekko. It's not you, it's me.
- tripzilch 15y ago
  Blekko's good for images? I gave it a few tries a while back but I got distracted by the slash syntaxes and forgot what I was looking for :) I'll give it another try. Today I mainly use Yahoo's image search for images. Disabling JS on Google Search (with Opera's site-specific preference or NoScript) also does a lot of good to make this once-great search engine somewhat more usable (not for the results, of course, but at least it's not continuously stealing input focus and mucking up its own search results as you try to navigate with your browser's keyboard shortcuts).
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  - drostie 15y ago
    I use Firefox's bookmark-keyword feature. It means that I type directly into the URL bar "i cute ducky" and it matches the following bookmark: Name: i jump Location: https://blekko.com/ws/%s/images Keyword: i Thus it dynamically gets rewritten to "https://blekko.com/ws/cute%20ducky/images https://blekko.com/ws/cute%20ducky/images as it should. As you can see, I call these "jumps" and I have a bunch of them. 'o drostie' takes me to http://www.drostie.org/ http://www.drostie.org/ for example. 'wik Aharanov-Bohm Effect' takes me to the SSL-enabled Wikipedia pages (which used to be in a very ugly place, secure.wikimedia.org, but have now been moved to en.wikipedia.org like you'd expect). There's "def" to define a word, "ety" to look up its etymology, "ark" to look something up in the Wayback Machine, and of course, "s" to search. I like the idea of verbs in my URL bar.
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DodgyEggplant 15y ago
This single url explains why Google will NEVER catch-up Facebook
wladimir 15y ago
Neat! Would be nice if it had a color bar (legend) to see which color is which value, though. The red/green/blue used below the graph for the axes ranges looks like one, and that is a bit confusing.
wilgertict 15y ago
One simple modification. What does this look like: sqrt(xx+yy^2)+3cos(sqrt(xx+y*y))+5
Gring 15y ago
Great stuff. I'd love if it kept spinning if I released the mouse button during a movement.
dewiz 15y ago
and what about sexy equations sqrt(xx+yyy)+3cos(sqrt(xx+yy))
ed2417 15y ago
This is impressive. Maybe the programmers who did this can speak to the financial charting side so their charts will plot a moving average using data that is actually off the left side of the chart, instead of omitting those points as if the data does not exist.
ioaa 15y ago
Integrate[x^2, {x, 0, 1}]
cnyd7811 15y ago
sqrt(xx+yy)+3cos(sqrt(xx+y*y))+5
datouxiaodu 15y ago
o?

Sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20

692 points by ing33k 15y ago

This works great in Firefox 11. It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux). EDIT: I really doesn't work because "NVIDIA cards with nouveau drivers in Linux are crash-prone." Firefox has no trouble, strangely.

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naner 15y ago
This works great in Firefox 11. It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux). I am also using Firefox on Linux and was actually suprised this worked. I assumed WebGL was still disabled by default for us.
- nkassis 15y ago
  Nope it's been on for a while but it will only work if you have good OpenGL drivers. (About ~50% of Linux users who try are able to view WebGL content from mozilla's numbers).
cleaver 15y ago
OSX 10.7 and Chrome 18 is OK.
valinor4 15y ago
I have Chromium 17 on Ubuntu (WebGl desactivated) and it works.
wolf550e 15y ago
You can enable it in about:flags
- drivebyacct2 15y ago
  Actually the thing in about:flags to to "enable" the "disabling" of WebGl.
  - StavrosK 15y ago
    No, you need to disable the disabling. Still doesn't work for me, though.
Foy 15y ago
Not working in Opera 11.62 Shame that my favourite browser doesn't support WebGL. :( But props to Google for making their search engine that much cooler.
- joliveira 15y ago
  If you want to see it with Opera try the 12 alpha. Just did and it is working perfectly.
huhtenberg 15y ago
> 3D charts require a web browser and system that support WebGL. Courtesy of Firefox 11. (edit) Apparently webgl.force-enabled needs to be set to true in about:config, and then it works.
- unreal37 15y ago
  Thanks for this tip. It wasn't working in Firefox 6, but then flipping the flag fixed it.
drivebyacct2 15y ago
>It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux). WebGL is definitely not disabled. You either disabled it or your GPU is not on the whitelist (or is on the blacklist).
- postfuturist 15y ago
  According to chrome://gpu: >WebGL: Unavailable. Hardware acceleration unavailable Chrome sadness.
  - drivebyacct2 15y ago
    I will say it's strange that Chrome thinks your computer is incapable but Firefox 11 is able to perform the task. It may be a bug with Chrome worth looking into.
reedlaw 15y ago
It works for me in Chrome 18 under Ubuntu 12.04.
why-el 15y ago
Ubuntu 11.10 and Firefox 11. Works like a charm.
- yaix 15y ago
  Same here. Chrome doesn't. However, since it's on an eeePC netbook the animations way to slow to be useful.
lloeki 15y ago
Works fine in Safari too. Don't forget to Enable WebGL in the Develop menu (itself activated in the Advanced tab of Safari's Preferences)
postfuturist 15y ago
After fiddling with about:flags and using --ignore-gpu-blacklist on the command line, I got chrome://gpu to report that WebGL is fully enabled. It _still_ doesn't work, with this error reported in the console: [75:75:1827873622829:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy.cc(110)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize.
- wolf550e 15y ago
  I suppose you need the latest mesa and drm. It works great here, but I'm running code from git.
Florin_Andrei 15y ago
> It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux). Chrome 18 on Ubuntu 11.04 with real crappy Intel Mobile 4 Chipset and it works.

luser001 15y ago

Am I missing something? What's the significance of this link?

ordinary 15y ago
It's pretty. That's all, I think.
zobzu 15y ago
showing off google's webgl rendering of equations in search its neat
sylvinus 15y ago
With latest Chrome, you get a nice 3d viz of the result.
- justincormack 15y ago
  Not on Android Chrome alas.
  - artursapek 15y ago
    Is WebGL on Android Chrome at all? I have barely ever touched an Android phone. I imagine Google is working hard to port it to Android if it's not.
    - justincormack 15y ago
      Actually seems it is not yet.
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ars 15y ago
Screenshot: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/googlegraph.png/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/googlegraph.png/ On the website it rotates automatically and you can also control it manually, it's not static like in the screenshot.

necenzurat 15y ago

is that a sombrero?

starwed 15y ago
Nah, you must be thinking of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_hat_potential#A_pedagogical_example:_the_Mexican_hat_potential http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_hat_potential#A_pedagog...
guygurari 15y ago
No, but this is. http://www.google.co.il/search?q=5000-140*%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B%28x*x%2By*y%29^2 http://www.google.co.il/search?q=5000-140*%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B...
- cynwoody 15y ago
  I think you get Post of Thread!
utexaspunk 15y ago
It's more like a Devo hat...

MyNewAccount 15y ago

very cool. what i made for the lulz: https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=sqrt(x*x%2By*y*y)%2B3*cos(sqrt(x*x%2By*y))%2B7 https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=sqrt(x*...

tensafefrogs 15y ago
Haha I was about to post the same thing. sqrt(xx+yyy)+3cos(sqrt(xx+yy))+5
- nsns 15y ago
  Or even - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&q=sin%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y*y%29%29%2Bcos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29*2%2Bsqrt%28cos%28x*x*x%2By*y%29%29%2F1.7&oq=sin%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y*y%29%29%2Bcos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29*2%2Bsqrt%28cos%28x*x*x%2By*y%29%29%2F1.7&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...4340l5267l0l5382l3l3l0l0l0l0l245l313l1j0j1l2l0.frgbld https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&#....
  - MyNewAccount 15y ago
    you have too much time on your hands my friend

sceaj 15y ago

One of the differentiating factors of Wolfram|Alpha: Gone. Google's doesn't require a 250mb plugin to become interactive (just a webgl capable browser...). And it seems to be about 8 times faster than W|A... W|A still does a lot of things other sites don't do, but it tends to be unusably slow, and inconsistent (running same query twice in a row will sometimes not give all of the same results). I figure the end is probably closer than one might expect for W|A. They don't seem to be moving quick enough to stay infront of the curve forever. Also, the site is becoming littered with obtrusive ads, and that's a pretty negative experience. (I also hear Wolfram's company may be struggling.) This should have been praise for Google's new tool, but it turned into a rant on Wolfram|Alpha... whoops.

smackfu 15y ago
Of course, since this is a Google result, it can just fail and say "3D charts require a web browser and system that support WebGL." Which is super useful to me.
- drivebyacct2 15y ago
  I can't tell if you're being sarcastic about it being super useful. If you are, it seems easier still to download Chrome to do a 3d render then it is to buy WA pro and download an apparently enormous plugin to do the same render
  - nkassis 15y ago
    He might mean that this computer doesn't have a card/driver combo capable of running WebGL. This is actually fairly common from test Mozilla has carried out. Successfull WebGL context creation on Windows were bellow 70% (can't find the actual page with the real numbers right now). But Chrome now supports software rendering through swiftshaders which should help those people. I for one agree with you, even with the issue of webgl capable hardware is much better than having to deal with huge plugins. (I'm biased, I use WebGL for my current work).
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driverdan 15y ago

Very cool. Worked for all equations I tried with x and/or y but not z. Also doesn't work with greek letters. Worked with f(x) but not ƒ(x) or f(x,y). Edit: Here's the official announcement http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/03/graphing-on-googlecom-now-in-3d.html http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/03/graphing-on-googlec...

darien 15y ago

If anyone is interested about WebGL and the latest news surrounding it, I run a blog at http://www.webgl.com http://www.webgl.com If you think it sucks, let me know.

huhtenberg 15y ago

This looks... erm ... neat. A "sophomore OpenGL term project" kind of neat. Wolfram on the other hand does the graphs right [0], which hardly surprising given their 20 years of head start. On a more general note, this reminds me of old Microsoft's tactics. Google should really stick to the search, but instead they throw together something that mimics competitor's feature. Something that looks more featureful and which is free, but upon closer inspection is effectively a half-ass effort, because it's an entirely different domain that's not their specialty. [0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29%2B5 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3...

Florin_Andrei 15y ago
I dunno. It's pretty, and it's good enough if you just want to gauge the overall shape of the curve, which is all I need most of the time.
zorked 15y ago
My bet is that this is supported by Google as a "here's a neat hack" feature, not as a "this is a vital feature in our ongoing to-the-death competition with Wolfram Alpha".
drivebyacct2 15y ago
[0] looks identical over the same ranges of x,y,z. http://goo.gl/pTrLh http://goo.gl/pTrLh Who cares if it's trivial? It's functional, fast, convenient and doesn't require a bunch of cruft. Kinda damages your quasi-rant to find out that you simply... didn't compare the graphs over the same interval. I don't know why every small feature that Google adds is either apparently out of fear of someone who's hardly a competitor or is proof that Google is the next Microsoft (which is a useless statement anyway). This all just reminds me how truly sad HN's markup is. I can't even escape the multiplication in the query for Google to get it to render properly (I replaced it with a Goo.gl link).
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mwsherman 15y ago

Interestingly, in Chrome 18, it puts about 2% load on my CPU, and 80% load on my GPU.

oscardelben 15y ago
It's webgl so it uses your graphic processor.

alexk7 15y ago

Hmm. No perspective.

nikcub 15y ago

any query that still only has a single answer I will still use wolfram (I use them all via the DDG bangs)

nsns 15y ago

Beautiful. Elasborations - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&q=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29%2B5*sin%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2&oq=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29%2B5*sin%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...3480l5221l0l5308l8l8l0l0l0l0l161l755l3j4l7l0.frgbld https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&#.... https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&q=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29-3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29-cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2%2Btan%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2&oq=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29-3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29-cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2%2Btan%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29^2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...20531l25258l1l25342l3l3l1l0l0l0l372l372l3-1l1l0.frgbld https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&#....

mjcohenw 15y ago

Nice. Also interesting is this: "About 274,000 results (0.15 seconds)".

tuananh 15y ago

Google is becoming more like Wolfram. Semantic search engine all the way to go.

nextstep 15y ago

Aw. Whatever this query does, it doesn't do it in Mobile Safari :(

Almaviva 15y ago

Oh man, change it to "sqrt(x * x + y * y * y)", and it looks like either boobs or ass, I'm not sure which!

Eduard 15y ago

si(x^2exp(xy*sinh(y^3+x^2))) doesn't work

janardanyri 15y ago

Word of caution: I left this open in a Safari tab without thinking about it, and soon found that my Mac's UI was hanging for ~20 seconds every minute or two. Took me half an hour to figure out what was going on.

sidcool 15y ago

It's beautiful!

tzz 15y ago

How does Google able to do this really fast? I mean even faster than a graphic calculator?

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acak 15y ago
Sorry. I don't know who down-voted you for what might be an innocent question. Google is calculating the set of values satisfying these equations on servers which are pretty fast - quite a bit faster than graph calculators.
Tangaroa 15y ago
The math and rendering is done client-side so it's your computer that is faster than a graphic calculator. Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/768/ http://xkcd.com/768/

btr41n 15y ago

When do you think Google search will be able to do the Batman Equation? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=batman+equation http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=batman+equation

laconian 15y ago
https://www.google.com/#q=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))%2F((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1%2Babs(abs(x)-3)%2F(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)%2B(4.5%2B0.75(abs(x-.5)%2Babs(x%2B.5))-2.75(abs(x-.75)%2Babs(x%2B.75)))(1%2Babs(1-abs(x))%2F(1-abs(x)))%2C-3sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)%2F(abs(x)-4))%2Cabs(x%2F2)-0.0913722(x%5E2)-3%2Bsqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)%5E2)%2C(2.71052%2B(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)%5E2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)%2F(abs(x)-1))&pbx=1&oq=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))%2F((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1%2Babs(abs(x)-3)%2F(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)%2B(4.5%2B0.75(abs(x-.5)%2Babs(x%2B.5))-2.75(abs(x-.75)%2Babs(x%2B.75)))(1%2Babs(1-abs(x))%2F(1-abs(x)))%2C-3sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)%2F(abs(x)-4))%2Cabs(x%2F2)-0.0913722(x%5E2)-3%2Bsqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)%5E2)%2C(2.71052%2B(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)%5E2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)%2F(abs(x)-1))&fp=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&cad=b https://www.google.com/#q=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x...
laconian 15y ago
https://www.google.com/#q=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))%2F((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1%2Babs(abs(x)-3)%2F(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)%2B(4.5%2B0.75(abs(x-.5)%2Babs(x%2B.5))-2.75(abs(x-.75)%2Babs(x%2B.75)))(1%2Babs(1-abs(x))%2F(1-abs(x)))%2C-3sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)%2F(abs(x)-4))%2Cabs(x%2F2)-0.0913722(x%5E2)-3%2Bsqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)%5E2)%2C(2.71052%2B(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)%5E2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)%2F(abs(x)-1))&pbx=1&oq=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))%2F((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1%2Babs(abs(x)-3)%2F(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)%2B(4.5%2B0.75(abs(x-.5)%2Babs(x%2B.5))-2.75(abs(x-.75)%2Babs(x%2B.75)))(1%2Babs(1-abs(x))%2F(1-abs(x)))%2C-3sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)%2F(abs(x)-4))%2Cabs(x%2F2)-0.0913722(x%5E2)-3%2Bsqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)%5E2)%2C(2.71052%2B(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)%5E2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)%2F(abs(x)-1))&fp=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&cad=b https://www.google.com/#q=1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x...
laconian 15y ago

forgetcolor 15y ago

doesn't work on my ipad, WA does.

hendler 15y ago

wanted to make something prettier: https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=sin(x*x%2By*y)%2B3*sin(cos(x*x%2By*y))%2B5&oq=sin(x*x%2By*y)%2B3*sin(cos(x*x%2By*y))%2B5&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=hp.3...752l752l1l985l1l1l0l0l0l0l71l71l1l1l0.frgbld.&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=3a4c3f9900aaf4a9&biw=1649&bih=864 https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&output=search...

cdvonstinkpot 15y ago

Clickable: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%285.5x%29*cos%285*y%29%2Bx*x%2B1&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%285.5x%29*cos%285*... https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1%2F%20sin%20abs%20x%20%2Bx%20-cos%20abs%20y%20%2By https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1%2F%20sin%2... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3*cos%28sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%29%2B5&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=5000-140*%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B%28x*x%2By*y%29^2&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=5000-140*%28x*x%2By*y%... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%28x^2%2By^2%29%2F%28abs%28x*y%29%2B1%29+from+-2.5+to+2.5&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%28x^2%2By^2%29%2F%... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=tanh%28y%28y^4%2B5x^4-10%28x^2%29%28y^2%29%29%2F%28x^2%2By^2%29^4%29&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=tanh%28y%28y^4%2B5x^4-... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%28x^2%2B%28%283+y%29%2F2-%28x^2%2Babs%28x%29-6%29%2F%28x^2%2Babs%28x%29%2B2%29%29^2%29-36&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%28x^2%2B%28%283+y%29%... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%285.5x%29*cos%285*y%29%2Bx*x%2B1+x+is+from+-1+to+1%2C+y+is+from+-1+to+1%2C+z+is+from+0.1+to+2.8&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sin%285.5x%29*cos%285*... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=100-3%2F%28sqrt%28x^2%2By^2%29%29%2Bsin%28sqrt%28x^2%2By^2%29%29%2C+x+is+from+-10+to+10%2C+y+is+from+-10+to+10%2C+z+is+from+85+to+101&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=100-3%2F%28sqrt%28x^2%... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x^2-%28y-abs%28x%29%29^2%29%29*cos%2830*%28%281-x^2-%28y-abs%28x%29%29^2%29%29%29%2C+x+is+from+-1+to+1%2C+y+is+from+-1+to+1.5%2C+z+is+from+1+to+6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x^2... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=100-3%2F%28sqrt%28x^2%2By^2%29%29%2Bsin%28sqrt%28x^2%2By^2%29%29%2Bsqrt%28200-%28x^2%2By^2%29%2B10*sin%28x%29%2B10sin%28y%29%29%2F1000%2C+x+is+from+-15+to+15%2C+y+is+from+-15+to+15%2C+z+is+from+90+to+101&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=100-3%2F%28sqrt%28x^2%...

hsshah 15y ago

Purely for graphing, I like Desmos. Works great on iPad as well. https://www.desmos.com/calculator https://www.desmos.com/calculator

delan 15y ago

This is very nice; one addition that would make it even better is support for implicitly defined functions and relationships. If we could graph things like x^2+(y-x^(2/3))^2=1 directly, that'd be awesome.

wcarss 15y ago

I didn't see anyone mention this specific fear, but a lot of people talked about this in the context of competition with Wolfram Alpha. What I fear is that google (on purpose or not) will outshine Wolfram's offering, push W|A out of the game, and then in 3-6 years decide it is not a feature worth keeping up. Just like code search, viable companies may fail due to Google toying with their entire industry, and then Google may just drop us back to the stone age in terms of that category of product. The fact that this is a fear at all points (in my mind) to some issues of monopoly. Then again, maybe I'm just too cynical and worried.

smokinn 15y ago
I don't fear Google dropping us behind where we are, I fear another IE6. IE6 back in the day was actually quite good. But because it was really good (among other other more shady things) everything else died off and it stagnated. What I fear is google keeping us in a local maxima of search and having us stagnate there for a decade.
- Iv 15y ago
  Don't worry. Little by little, politicians come up with ways that will make it impossible for google to continue its business...
  - kaens 15y ago
    I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but most of the possible meanings I can think of aren't ones that would really stop us from having google be an (unfortunate) local maxima of search for too long.
    - Iv 15y ago
      I am thinking of laws that make it unlawful to publish certain links with an arbitrary property (containing or linking to copyrighted material) or laws that prohibits it to publish the result of statistical analysis (the whole auto-suggest debate). Note also that everytime that Google changes its ranking algorithm, some companies complain because, as they paid for SEO, they feel entitled to a high google rank.

Big_Oh 15y ago

But I didn't want the graph, I wanted the minimum values!

yuletide666 15y ago

woah.

edwardy20 15y ago

I didn't have WebGL so I didn't get to see what all the hype was about at first. For the rest of you who are unlucky like me, here's a GIF a Redditor kindly posted: http://i.imgur.com/58mgx.gif http://i.imgur.com/58mgx.gif

rcfox 15y ago

It works beautifully on my Playbook.

blrgeek 15y ago

Feels like a gimmick... Something MS used to do well - take the shiniest feature of a competitor & implement it. The graph plot is just the tip of the iceberg - W|A does much much more, and Google might drop this in a few months if they don't see traction. I thought Page spoke to Jobs and got a lesson in 'focus' ? If Google really comes up with a viable competitor to W|A, with all the datasets, math, etc., that's one thing. Just copying the shiniest toy feature is a little dull...

drostie 15y ago

Thank you, Google, for making me uninstall some nVidia packages from Ubuntu that were apparently stopping WebGL from working. The tool you built is also kinda nifty, and I might even use it when trying to help people online with mathematics. Nonetheless, my day-to-day search traffic is still being offloaded to DuckDuckGo and my day-to-day image traffic is still going to Blekko. It's not you, it's me.

tripzilch 15y ago
Blekko's good for images? I gave it a few tries a while back but I got distracted by the slash syntaxes and forgot what I was looking for :) I'll give it another try. Today I mainly use Yahoo's image search for images. Disabling JS on Google Search (with Opera's site-specific preference or NoScript) also does a lot of good to make this once-great search engine somewhat more usable (not for the results, of course, but at least it's not continuously stealing input focus and mucking up its own search results as you try to navigate with your browser's keyboard shortcuts).
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- drostie 15y ago
  I use Firefox's bookmark-keyword feature. It means that I type directly into the URL bar "i cute ducky" and it matches the following bookmark: Name: i jump Location: https://blekko.com/ws/%s/images Keyword: i Thus it dynamically gets rewritten to "https://blekko.com/ws/cute%20ducky/images https://blekko.com/ws/cute%20ducky/images as it should. As you can see, I call these "jumps" and I have a bunch of them. 'o drostie' takes me to http://www.drostie.org/ http://www.drostie.org/ for example. 'wik Aharanov-Bohm Effect' takes me to the SSL-enabled Wikipedia pages (which used to be in a very ugly place, secure.wikimedia.org, but have now been moved to en.wikipedia.org like you'd expect). There's "def" to define a word, "ety" to look up its etymology, "ark" to look something up in the Wayback Machine, and of course, "s" to search. I like the idea of verbs in my URL bar.
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DodgyEggplant 15y ago

This single url explains why Google will NEVER catch-up Facebook

wladimir 15y ago

Neat! Would be nice if it had a color bar (legend) to see which color is which value, though. The red/green/blue used below the graph for the axes ranges looks like one, and that is a bit confusing.

wilgertict 15y ago

One simple modification. What does this look like: sqrt(xx+yy^2)+3cos(sqrt(xx+y*y))+5

Gring 15y ago

Great stuff. I'd love if it kept spinning if I released the mouse button during a movement.

dewiz 15y ago

and what about sexy equations sqrt(xx+yyy)+3cos(sqrt(xx+yy))

ed2417 15y ago

This is impressive. Maybe the programmers who did this can speak to the financial charting side so their charts will plot a moving average using data that is actually off the left side of the chart, instead of omitting those points as if the data does not exist.

ioaa 15y ago

Integrate[x^2, {x, 0, 1}]

cnyd7811 15y ago

sqrt(xx+yy)+3cos(sqrt(xx+y*y))+5

datouxiaodu 15y ago