Today, technologies make everything easy and fast. And sometimes, when we see the ancient marvels of engineering, we wonder: “How they designed this without computers”? And the answer is: “with knowledge, inspiration and hard work”. However, being almost irreplaceable, computers makes us more and more adjective. Our brains become lazy and we are losing someContinue reading “How to calculate square/cubic root by hand?”
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What’s new in Calcpad, version 5.6.3?
Since version 5.6 was released, we made some little, but nice and useful improvements. They were driven mostly by our small and dedicated GitHub community. Some of the most important changes are listed below: 1. Autorun mode When enabled, the results are refreshed automatically each time you edit the code and leave the current line.Continue reading “What’s new in Calcpad, version 5.6.3?”
How to use Calcpad with Notepad++
Notepad++ is one of the most popular and free text/code editors. It supports many different programming and scripting languages. You can also edit HTML, XML, CSS, JSON and other types of files. Currently, its text editing capabilities significantly exceeds those of the Calcpad own editor. Some features that worth mentioning are: multiple file tabs; predefinedContinue reading “How to use Calcpad with Notepad++”
How to plot the Julia Set
In the previous post we discussed the Mandelbrot set. There is another beautiful algebraic fractal, called Julia set 𝓙. It is named after the French mathematician Gaston Julia, who has discovered. It is obtained by the same formula as the Mandelbrot Set: zn+1 = zn2 + c The difference is that z0 = x +Continue reading “How to plot the Julia Set”
Plotting the Mandelbrot Set
Calcpad has an interesting and undocumented feature, that I am going to reveal in this post. You can use it to quickly plot the Mandelbrot set. This is a set of complex numbers c, for which the iterative equation zn+1 = zn2 + c does not go to infinity. The most beautiful part is thatContinue reading “Plotting the Mandelbrot Set”
New version 5.6!
We are proud to present the new version 5.6 of the Calcpad software. It is much faster than the previous versions and includes a lot of new features. Calcpad is ported to the latest Microsoft .NET 6.0 platform, which is faster than .NET Framework 4.x we used before. On the other side, the Calcpad codeContinue reading “New version 5.6!”
Calcpad is free and open source!
In December, 2021 Calcpad joined the big family of open source software. It is now distributed under the MIT License. The source code is available on both SourceForge and GitHub. We welcome any contributors that could help improving the software or developing more useful features. The next big challenge is to add vectors and matrices.
Even more 3D effects
In the last version I improved the 3D plot shading and added some nice 3D effects. Bellow is the plot of the function f(x; y) = cos(x) + cos(y) + cos(x·y/3)/2 + cos(√(x2 + y2)·2)/2 with the “Rainbow” color scale and the “Shadows” option on: What is new is the specular light effect (the littleContinue reading “Even more 3D effects”
Math Art with Calcpad
Most people consider math boring, but sometimes it can be really beautiful. Recently I found some unusual application of Calcpad – to draw nice pictures using math formulas. In general, you can plot functions of two variables using the $Map command: $Map{f(x;y) @ x = a : b & y = c : d} IContinue reading “Math Art with Calcpad”
Plotting with Calcpad 3.2
The new and enhanced version of Calcpad 3.2 was released. Besides other improvements, we added some nice visual effects for 2D plotting. In general, you can use Calcpad to plot functions of two parameters f(x; y), by the $Map command: $Map{f(x;y) @ x = a : b & y = c : d} The resultContinue reading “Plotting with Calcpad 3.2”
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