Creating Amazing Images with Mathcad 14.0
by Professor Byrge Birkeland

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Professor Byrge Birkeland first wrote this E-book of Mathcad 2D and 3D truely amazing graphs and images using Mathcad 2001i. He is associate professor in mathematics at Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway.

Professor Birkeland has revised the E-book so that it now works with Mathcad 14.0. In this astounding book of mathematical images, Byrge Birkeland vividly illustrates the power of Mathcad as a 2D and 3D graphics tool. He skillfully covers topics like multiple polygon plotting, text on graphs, multiplication tables involving permutation groups, electrical circuit drawing, polytopes, projections, knot rendering via the FFT, tessellations, recursive curves and fractals.

Every Mathcad user will benefit from seeing a master programmer at work, imaginatively applying Mathcad's capabilities to its full potential. Each image you see below was created as a Mathcad 3D graph, and the E-book shows you how to create it and similar images.

Mathematicians, artists, and just about everyone will enjoy the imaginative images. The ribbon tilings might inspire you to create a quilt or tapestry.

The E-book has simpler examples as well.

Say you have two polygons:

and you want to draw them using only one vector on each of the axes. Then you can define:

and put the vectors underneath each other:

Here are the two polygons using two items on each of the axes:

You can find and download this E-book in the new Mathcad Resource Center on PTC's website.

Enjoy!