I've been tasked with generating "phase plots" which are visualizations of complex functions. 

A 2D phase plot is easy to create: Given a complex function F : C -> C colour points (x, y) in R^2 by [ arg(F(x+I*y)), 1, 1, colortype=HSV].   Something like the following seems to do the trick
    
    p := plot3d( 
        1,
        x=-5..5,
        y=-5..5,
        scaling=constrained,
        color=[ argument(f(x+I*y))/2/Pi, 1, 1, colortype=HSV],
        axes=none,
        style=patchnogrid,
    ):
    
    g := plottools[transform]((x,y,z)->[x,y],p);
    plots[display]( g(p) ):

Now, "colouring each point of R^2" is only possible using some type of bijection onto the Riemann sphere or Pseudosphere.

The pseudosphere is:

    x := (u,v) -> sech(u)*cos(v);
    y := sech(u)*sin(v);
    z := u - tanh(u);
    
    return  plot3d(
        [x(u,v),y(u,v),z(u,v)],
        u=0..3,
        v=0..2*Pi,
        numpoints=2^10,
        lightmodel=none,
        color=ColorFunc(u,v) );

In this case I need  ColorFunc to be:

ColorFunc := proc(u,v)
    x, y := v, exp(u);
    ans  := Re( f(x+I*y) );
    if ans > 2*Pi then
       return [0,0,0,colortype=HSV];
    end if;
    return [ans/2/Pi,1,1,colortype=HSV];
end proc;

But it seems that "ColorFunc" cannot be very sophisticated.  Namely, it cannot contain "frems" or even "if" statements because (as far as I can tell) of the order of evaluations.  

It seems possible that I can generate a psuedosphere then change colours AFTER by swapping out the COLOR information in a more sophisticated way.  How can I do this?  I really just need to know how to identify and swap out points from a MESH.

I am interested in efficiently plotting a grid of squares where each square is coloured. 

From what I understand I can do this using plotting primitives. For example,

P1 := Array( 1..4, 1..2, [[0,0],[1,0],[1,1],[0,1]],storage=rectangular, order=C_order, datatype=float[8] );

P2 := Array( 1..4, 1..2, [[1,1],[2,1],[2,2],[1,2]],storage=rectangular, order=C_order, datatype=float[8] );

PLOT( POLYGONS(P1,P2), COLOUR(RGB,1,0,0,0,1,0)  );

plots one red and one green unit sqaure.

I am interested however in plotting millions of squares.  Is there a way to efficiently store the sequence required for the POLYGONS and COLOUR primitive?  Ideally I want to store them as arrays.

Is this deliberate or a bug?  If deliberate, what is the reason?

> Algebraic[GetAlgebraics]( 1*I );

                                        {I}

> Algebraic[GetAlgebraics]( 1.0*I );

                                        {}

Can anyone coax Maple to solve this reccurence relation? It seems harmless enough but Maple is struggng a bit with "hypergeomsols."

f := c -> (2*n-c)*f(c-1) - (c-1)*n*f(c-2);

f(0) := 1;

f(1) := 2*n-1;

The following is taken from p 328 of the Maple TA manual.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ed}
\begin{document}

\begin{question}{Formula}
% This question uses randomized variables.
\qutext{Find the formula for the inverse of the function
$f(x)=\var{a}x+\var{b}$.}
\answer{(x-\var{b})/\var{a}}
\code{
$a=int(rint(9)+2);
$b=int(rint(9)+2);
}
% The above code chooses random integer coefficients a and b between
% 2 and 10.
\end{question}

\end{document}

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