On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Travis Scrimshaw <tsc...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > More of random thought, but would people be interested in adding a value to > the builtin functions which says what a "good" default plot interval is, > e.g., for sin(x) would be [-pi, pi] or [-2pi, 2pi] (and hope there's not too > much bikeshedding)?
I think adding such a thing is an extremely good proposal. I was just looking at the mathematic docs and they have an "automatic" option for determining plot ranges, which is by definition heuristics -- I guess that's what's being proposed as the default instead of [-1,1]. How about as a first step, we just discuss and implement such an option, and then later think about whether not to make it the default? Initially there is no issue of backwards compatibility to worry about. william > > Best, > Travis > > > On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 10:44:01 AM UTC-7, William wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Nathann Cohen <nathan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hello everybody, >> > >> > Just a random thought. I typed "plot(sin(x))" today, and it felt "wrong" >> > that the plot was on x=-1...1. >> > >> > I know that we are not wizards, and that we cannot magically guess the >> > "right" interval to plot a function. But I wondered: what would you >> > think of >> > changing that default to -3,3 or -5,5, or anything you might like? >> > >> > This would appear a bit better. I don't know whether that is a good or a >> > bad >> > idea, so I throw it here :-) >> > >> > Have fuuuuuun, >> >> -1 to changing a decade old default in Sage just for fun. >> >> William >> >> > >> > Nathann >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "sage-devel" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> William (http://wstein.org) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
