On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello !! > >> What pictures are you looking at? > > Things like those : > > sage: graphs.PetersenGraph().show() > sage: graphs.RandomGNP(20,.3).show() > > I do not use the notebook, and when I display those pictures I usually > toggle my picture viewer to fullscreen... At this level, the pictures > I see are not that pretty, which clearly improves when dpi=300 for > example :-) > >> I'm pretty sure we don't want the bitmaps in the notebook to be three >> times as big as they are now (nor take longer to render/download). If >> you're putting them in a paper or anything, you'd want to render as >> pdf or some other vector format, in which case dpi is irrelevant. > > No, as I said it is just to work with Sage and not have to produce > pixelized pictures. It is also a bit better to show clean pictures > when giving a talk about Sage on a projector ^^; > > This being said, you're right when you say it would produce very bad > effects for notebook users, especially over internet. Would it have > any meaning to set the dpi to 300 by default anyway, except when Sage > is used through the notebook (I have no idea how such a thing is > possible, but I guess there may be a way) ? In the end, the reason for > this picture quality being the notebook, it doesn't seem "fair" to > impact everybody because of this... This last sentence should be read > knowing I have no idea how many Sage users prefer notebook to console, > if you find it especially unconsiderate, just discard it :-)
In my experience most users, especially those drawing a lot of plots, tend to use the notebook (though not necessarily exclusively). > What would you think of changing the default dpi for graphs only ? > Would it make any sense for you ? > > I'm fine if you think those are bad options... Your reasons are sound, > and there may be other ways around.. I would really like Sage to > display Graphs without pixels ^^; How about some concrete timings (to realize how much of an impact this would have)? I would be more OK with a patch that just doesn't impact the notebook (it's not just about communication speed, but also screen real-estate). - Robert -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
