Online Algebra Calculator
Many of users do not use powerful Maxima computer algebra system for systematic work, but for ad hoc algebraic calculations – equations, functions, matrixes, etc. only. To do this job, it is not useful to download the whole application from a web site.
Function: make_transform ([<var1>, <var2>, <var3>], <fx>, <fy>, <fz>) Returns a function suitable to be used in the option transform_xy of plot3d. The three variables <var1>, <var2>, <var3> are three dummy variable names, which represent the 3 variables given by the plot3d command (first the two independent variables and then the function that depends on those two variables). The three functions <fx>, <fy>, <fz> must depend only on those 3 variables, and will give the corresponding x, y and z coordinates that should be plotted. There are two transformations defined by default: polar_to_xy and spherical_to_xyz; see the documentation for those two transformations.
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