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New tool turns maths into pictures - Kyng - 06-02-2020
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-06-carnegie-mellon-tool-automatically-math.html
Some people look at an equation and see a bunch of numbers and symbols; others see beauty. Thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie Mellon University, anyone can now translate the abstractions of mathematics into beautiful and instructive illustrations.
The tool enables users to create diagrams simply by typing an ordinary mathematical expression and letting the software do the drawing. Unlike a graphing calculator, these expressions aren't limited to basic functions, but can be complex relationships from any area of mathematics.
The researchers named it Penrose after the noted mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose, who is famous for using diagrams and other drawings to communicate complicated mathematical and scientific ideas.
Pity this wasn't around when I was at university: I would've used it all the time! (Of course, it's often a mistake to use a picture to prove a theorem; however, pictures can be useful to motivate a proof, or illustrate specific examples)
Other than that, this looks like it'll be rather useful for educational maths videos in the future!
RE: New tool turns maths into pictures - Detective Osprey - 06-06-2020
Whoa. I like the look of this.