On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:42 PM, alex clemesha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Tuesday 01 April 2008 04:45:16 pm alex clemesha wrote: > > > With respect to the 'goal' of Sage's plotting (follow Mma), > > > I would say this is definitley a bug. > > > > > > People with 'violent' feelings about this apsect of the plotting > > > might want to change certain features of the plot code once and for all > :) > > > > Well, as I mentioned in my earlier post on this thread, I wasn't sure what > was > > intentional design. > > > > This thread > > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/c7445f921c8f0e85/1c7420b369bc7baa > > left me quite confused when I complained the first time. > > > > I do have a patch which I apply everytime I have a critical output quality > > plotting session. Actually, that patch is in the mentioned thread. It's > > quick and dirty, but it removes all extra margins (I think it has to touch > 3 > > places in the code -- i.e. 3 extra margin padding code-points -- really > quite > > grotesque, and, I couldn't believe it was all by accident.) > > > > This is why I think this thread right here is quite ironic -- you all > suddenly > > seem to be agreeing with me about margins ... > > Hi, > I do very much remember the above thread that you mention, > and I also like to say thanks for bringing up these kinds of issues, > it's how the code gets better! > > When I wrote the first round of the plotting code, I had automated > scripts that made 10's (100's even) plots with different parameters, > and I tried to tweak the code to make everything look as "nice" > as possible. "nice" and "precise" aren't really the same thing :) > > Changes to Sage's plotting code, as well as changes to matplotlib > have surely made some things different today. > > Probably if you make some changes to the plotting code, > and make some scripts that generate a bunch of plots give > different parameters, and show improvements, everyone would > agree to commit those changes! > > If you where willing to do this, I for one would be very interested and > thankful. > You might find that generating tons of plots, then doing tweaking, is harder > than you think, but is well worth it.
Joel, Are you getting tired yet of people telling you things are harder than you think? :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
