Geometry app three suggestions

[Alberto Candel]

This semester I am teaching a course on computational geometry. I did recommend my students the HP Prime, but couldn't make much use of it. Maybe my shortcomings. I ended up using Mathematica. I do feel that the Prime has a great potential nevertheless, but it requires lots of learning and hands-on programming experience that my students did not have. Of course, I could have focused on actual programming with the Prime, but that was not my original plan.

Anyway, here are a couple of suggestions:

* Make the Geometry App more like the Computational Geometry Package in Mathematica. ConvexHull, Voronoi Diagram, Delaunay Triangulation should be readily available. There is a convex hull function in CAS, but it requires some extra programming to go from the list of points to the picture. I could not find Voronoi or Delaunay.

* It should be possible to save a picture obtained on the Geometry App of the HP Prime as a PDF or EPS or something like that which then could be transfered to a PC or smart phone via Bluetooth (yes, the connectivity kit does not work in Linux). This capability would be great for preparing LaTeX docs for the course.

That is it for now.