On Sat, 26 May 2012 at 03:30PM -1000, Eric Firing wrote: > It is easy enough to remove the immediate roadblock in scale_range, > but that just opens up a can of floating point worms. The axis spines > start getting misplaced, for example, as the range being plotted gets > too small relative to the offset. Straightening all this out, or even > substantially improving it, is potentially tricky. To the extent that > it can be done, it will have to be in master, which already includes > one cleanup of a floating point kluge. > > Note that part of the problem here is that in your example we are > running out of precision. The best way to handle it is to subtract an > offset first, and just plot the deviation from that offset. I think > this is best done at the application level. We can probably make > mpl's handling of the problem degrade more gracefully, however, than > it does at present.
Thanks for your help. I'll look at your links and see what we can do. Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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