Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Sep 25, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Erik Lane wrote: > >> Yes, I saw that in the solution of the other one (and have changed my >> plots to take this into account), but what is the advantage of the >> aspect ratio default *not* being 1? I'm very curious. I'm not a >> mathematician, just a student going through college, so I would love >> to hear the why behind this. >> >> Also, does this have much of an effect on all my other plots? Do I >> have to pay attention every time to see if the axes are at different >> ratios to each other? (Although in many plots I guess they easily >> could be anyways.) > > The "interesting" range for x and y are rarely a 1:1 aspect ratio > (e.g. plot sin, exp, or even most polynomials on (-10,10)). However, > for geometric objects like circles, I think the default aspect ratio > should be 1:1. >
You've said this before too. For reference, this is http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2100 Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
