Jason Grout wrote:
> Henryk Trappmann wrote:
>> Hallo,
>>
>> it seems currently (sage 4.2) that the plot scale is not recomputed
>> when changing the aspect_ratio, but simply graphically resized. This
>> leads to possibly overlapping numbers, and looks somehow squeezed.
>> Example:
>>
>> p = plot(lambda x: 10*x, (0,1)); p.set_aspect_ratio(1); p
>>
>
>
> I'm pretty sure the code for tick marks does not pay attention to the
> length of the axis in the picture, but only the length in data units.
> It would be an interesting problem to design a tick locator that cut out
> ticks based on the physical size in the picture of the axes. This would
> be especially interesting since usually, you don't know how big (in the
> image) stuff is until you actually draw it, long after the ticks are all
> constructed and placed.
>
> This should be forwarded to the matplotlib list and we should ask their
> opinion about it.
This example shows the problem in straight matplotlib code:
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import numpy
t = numpy.arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.01)
s = 10*t
plt.figure()
plt.plot(t,s)
plt.axes().set_aspect(1)
plt.savefig('test.png')
Thanks,
Jason
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