On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> 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. >> > > > You've said this before too. For reference, this is > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2100 > > >
For further reference, I implemented 3d plotting that way, so the default when you make a sphere is a 1:1:1 aspect ratio. So I also agree. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
