Dear all -
[I'm writing under the influence of a (so long) mild attack of big C,
so beg your pardon if reads a bit incoherently in places.]
When plotting a unit circle (using pd commands and options) I got
disappointed again as it looked like a ballon from last weeks birthday party.
I then remembered this threat from yesteryear
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2021-February/057582.html
where Bill wrote:
"I think it's ok to have different axis length, but the unit of each axis
should have the same physical length. Is this a bug in qt output only?"
And somewhat later:
"The hexagon has vertices on x axis but the flat side on y axis. the
distance between opposite vertices is longer than the distance between
opposite sides."
As I checked myself, it's not a problem of qt output only, but also
visible in print.
The option 'aspect' which was suggested as a remedy (using a value of
0.866, which -for reasons unknown to me- is suspiciously close to
-:%:3) has probably more to do with the aspect of the plotted grid
(and if so, in a weird way, at least one I do not fully understand).
And I wondered whether there should be an additional pd option
labelled something like
'units ratio' or 'compression ratio'
where a value of 1 would force identical unit lengths on both the
vertical and horizontal axis.
I must admit that I'm not current on that issue, might have missed
any further discussion (if there was one).
-M
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