Geometry app three suggestions

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(04-11-2014 10:48 PM)Alberto Candel Wrote:  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.

Hey Alberto thanks for sharing, can you elaborate what things made you use another geometry tool? I never used anything for geometry in school/university so I am a bit away from the field, but I thought these geometry tools were made for interacting "graphically" in the path of finding a numerical solution (like for example I always design small pieces in 3d to 3d-print and I always have to solve hidden angles of the objects, usually on a paper)

Does your suggestions replace the ones I suggested in the first post in "priority"? (from your view point)