On Sep 25, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Erik Lane wrote: > Yes, I saw that in the solution of the other one (and have changed my > plots to take this into account), but what is the advantage of the > aspect ratio default *not* being 1? I'm very curious. I'm not a > mathematician, just a student going through college, so I would love > to hear the why behind this. > > Also, does this have much of an effect on all my other plots? Do I > have to pay attention every time to see if the axes are at different > ratios to each other? (Although in many plots I guess they easily > could be anyways.)
The "interesting" range for x and y are rarely a 1:1 aspect ratio (e.g. plot sin, exp, or even most polynomials on (-10,10)). However, for geometric objects like circles, I think the default aspect ratio should be 1:1. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
