NDLI: Handier Use of Scilab to Draw Fine LaTeX Figures: Usage of KETpic Version for Scilab

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Koshikawa, H. Kaneko, M. Yamashita, S. Kitahara, K. Takato, S.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	In today's technological era, technologies for drawing fine figures have become necessary for effective communication in areas such as scientific research, industry, architecture, medical service, and education. In the areas of scientific research and education, computer algebra system (CAS) has become the preferred tool because of its superb drawing utilities and symbolic computation capabilities. However, embedding the graphics generated with CAS into preferred documents such as LaTeX is limited, cumbersome and inefficient. For instance, a large sized graphical file becomes an issue for fast web-tech based communication. To remedy this issue, we have developed a macro package of CAS, named KETpic, as a convenient tool for supplying high quality graphics (produced with the aid of CAS) embedded in high-quality scientific documents (edited by LaTeX). Although its versions for Mathematica and Maple have been fully developed, we recently migrated it to a popular shareware Scilab so that more people can use it. In a sense, the extent of the facilities which a CAS provides and the expense to purchase it present a "tradeoff'" relation. Consequently, some extra contrivance was necessary in the migration described above. This paper illustrates that the facilities of KETpic version for Scilab become almost equal to those of its Mathematica and Maple counterparts.
Starting Page	39
Ending Page	48
File Size	288310
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769539997
e-ISBN	9781424464623
DOI	10.1109/ICCSA.2010.33
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-03-23
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Content addressable storage Educational technology Computer science education Communication effectiveness Communication industry Computer architecture Medical services Algebra Computer graphics Packaging graphics in LaTeX documents computer algebra system KETpic Scilab
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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