A little while ago, I created a video, Engaging and Enlightening Students with Maple Visualizations, that showed a sample of Maple visualizations that would be helpful in teaching math. Doing that allowed me to get reacquainted with some of Maple's plotting features that I hadn't used for a while. As a result, I made a second instructional video for my Maple tips series, Animating a Polyhedron in Maple. 

I chose this topic because I thought it would show several features in Maple that might not be known to all users. I list them below and encourage you to try them out.

• The plots:-polyhedraplot command allows you to create a 3-D plot of a polyhedron, including one of 138 polyhedra that Maple knows about.

• The list of named polyhedra available can be obtained by calling the plots:-polyhedra_supported command.

• The viewpoint option, which allows you to create an animation by varying the viewpoint through a 3D plot, can be used to rotate the polyhedron.

• Finally, the Export feature allows you to save the plot animation as an animated GIF.

Over the past few months, I've created a number of short videos. My intention is to help people use Maple more effectively. I occasionally give workshops introducing Maple and its programming language, and many of the topics come from questions I get from the participants. 

These can be found on our Youtube channel. Here are the ones posted so far.

What is a Workbook?
Creating a Workbook
How to Customize Your Maple Settings with the Options Dialog
What is Maple Transactions?
How to Submit an Article to Maple Transactions
Quotation Marks in Maple
Using Single Quotes to Prevent Evaluation
 

If you find these helpful and have suggestions for future videos, please leave a comment, thanks!

The Maple Conference starts tomorrow Oct. 26 at 9am EDT! It's not too late to register: https://www.maplesoft.com/mapleconference/2023/. Even if you can't attend all the presentations, registration will allow you to view the recorded videos after the conference. 

Check out the detailed conference program here: https://www.maplesoft.com/mapleconference/2023/full-program.aspx

The Maple Conference will be starting in two weeks! The detailed agenda, which includes abstracts of invited and contributed talks, is available here: https://www.maplesoft.com/mapleconference/2023/full-program.aspx.

Please join us on October 26 and 27 for two days of presentations from our staff members and the larger Maple community, a look at our Art Gallery and Creative Showcase, opportunities for networking with other Maple enthusiasts, and more! The conference is virtual and free of charge, and you can register at https://www.maplesoft.com/mapleconference/2023/.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

Registration for Maple Conference 2023 is now open! This year’s conference will again be a free virtual event. Please visit our site to see more information about the event and to register.

Our call for presentations has now concluded, but it is not too late to submit to our Maple Conference Art Gallery and Creative Works Showcase.

The Agenda section, where you’ll find information about the conference format and an overview schedule, has been added. This will be updated as the details are finalized.