On Apr 27, 11:10 pm, clinton bowen <clinton.bo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > My question about the thickness attribute for 2d plot functions. > Could somebody explain to me: > 1) what does "thickness - How thick the line is" mean? this is > somewhat ambiguous to me. Could somebody elaborate to me what this > means (e.g. thickness = 2 or thickness = 0.2)
I think this is passed to matplotlib, so their docs would be relevant. If you look at sage: sage.plot.line.Line?? you'll discover that we are using set_linewidth, which is "set_linewidth(w) Set the line width in points ACCEPTS: float value in points" so points is the unit. (By the way, that this is where the doc lives is not obvious; we try to hide this a little from the typical end user, because mpl allows too much customization for the casual plotter.) > 2) My guess is that whether a picture of a plot is relative to its > width and height so if I were plotting on the unit square, I won't > see a line or a circle with thickness = .0000002 Is this correct? You can try it yourself. The default plot is in the side 2 box centered at the origin, and sage: plot(sin(x),thickness=.00000002) sage: plot(sin(x),thickness=.00002) sage: plot(sin(x),thickness=.02) sage: plot(sin(x),thickness=.2) only the last one shows up, just barely, on my computer. I suppose if you made the image MUCH larger it might. Please let us know if this doesn't answer your question, though! - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
