R help - Jul 2009 - Plot 2-d Polynomial without solving it

Hi,
I want to plot a polynomial in the form like ax^2 + bxy + cy^2 + dx + ey + f
=0 without solving it(since I may have 3 or 4 dimensional polynomial and
it's really hard to solve). Is there any way  to plot this kind of
polynomial?

Thanks a lot! 
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Hao Jiang wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to plot a polynomial in the form like ax^2 + bxy + cy^2 + dx + ey +
f
> =0 without solving it(since I may have 3 or 4 dimensional polynomial and
> it's really hard to solve). Is there any way  to plot this kind of
> polynomial?
>
> Thanks a lot! 
>   
There are lots of ways.  A contour plot is probably most informative, a 
persp plot is prettier.  In either case you need to evaluate the 
polynomial on a grid, and pass the matrix of values to the plotting 
function.

The outer() function is handy for doing the grid evaluation.

Duncan Murdoch