title: Sage not displaying/rendering 3D plots (Partially solved)
body: <h1>partially solved : Works in jmol trough Sage CLI</h1>
  <h2>3D plot remains blank in SageMath in Jupyter Notebook</h2>
  <p>Edit: This problem still remains unsolved, I have tried to even boot into a different OS  (Debian instead of Kali) (not using anaconda, will (hopefully) get more time to try that)</p>
  <p>As the title describes and illustrated by this screenshot:</p>
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ELNny.png" alt="Command for 3D plot produces white instead of interactive 3D plot" /></p>
  <p>Instead of the expected 3D plot, just a white plain background with a question mark in it, that, when clicked, displays a menu like this:</p>
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aSFBT.png" alt="Menu obtained when clicking the empty plot" /></p>
  <p>I have now experimented quite a bit on this example (on my system) and... to give an example:</p>
  <p>This shows just a black square (while it's supposed to show a sphere):</p>
  <pre><code>sage: u = var('u')
  sage: circle = (cos(u), sin(u))
  sage: rp = revolution_plot3d
  sage: rp(circle, (u, 0, 2*pi), axis=(0, 0),
  ....:    show_curve=True, opacity=0.5).show(aspect_ratio=(1, 1, 1))
  </code></pre>
  <p>The following code is (I guess) <em>a bit</em> better, but still not really &quot;as it should be&quot;, or &quot;as expected&quot;:</p>
  <pre><code>sage: u = var('u')
  sage: circle = (cos(u), sin(u))
  sage: rp = revolution_plot3d
  sage: rp(circle, (u, 0, 2*pi), axis=(0, 0), frame=False,
  ....:    show_curve=True, opacity=0.5).show(aspect_ratio=(1, 1, 1))
  </code></pre>
  <p>(Change: include <code>frame=False</code> somewhere in the last line).</p>
  <h3>Inspiration</h3>
  <p>I am trying to recreate <a href="https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/plot3d/sage/plot/plot3d/revolution_plot3d.html#sage.plot.plot3d.revolution_plot3d.revolution_plot3d" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this 3D plot from the SageMath documentation</a>:</p>
  <p><img src="https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/plot3d/_images/revolution_plot3d-4.svg" alt="Sphere 3D plot from SageMath documentation" /></p>
  <h2>Info/Logs:</h2>
  <ul>
  <li><p>SageMath version:</p>
  <pre><code>SageMath version 9.2, Release Date: 2020-10-24
  </code></pre>
  </li>
  <li><p>OS: Kali Linux</p>
  </li>
  <li><p>SageMath installed via <code>apt</code>:</p>
  <pre><code>sudo apt-get install sagemath
  </code></pre>
  </li>
  </ul>
  <p>I do not need to &quot;get&quot; this solved  anytime soon, Right now I am mostly doing matrix operations, and such. so - there is no &quot;hurry&quot; with coming up with a solution here! It would just be a [plus+] to be able to do as the problem describe, but it is not necessary.</p>
  <p><strong>Any</strong> help is <strong>greatly</strong> appreciated!
  Thanks!</p>