On Mar 5, 10:29 pm, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 3/4/11 8:55 PM, D. S. McNeil wrote: > > > I can understand why having an adaptive approach which uses random > > numbers is more robust than "dx=(xmax-xmin)/100" etc. What I don't > > understand is why the default behaviour isn't to use a set seed so > > that the result of plotting calls would be reproducible. > > > If there's a real difference between using one seed and the next, in > > that sometimes it produces a good plot and sometimes it doesn't, then > > aren't you going to need to control the seed anyway to get the good > > plot back? And if there isn't a real difference, then why not simply > > pick one and get all the benefits of the adaptive approach while > > preserving reproducibility? > > +1 to having a default random seed that doesn't change each plot (maybe > a module-level variable in the plot module, like RANDOM_SEED, so that a > user can change the seed if they want).
Open a ticket and make it so, then! This would massively help with any eventual doctesting of actual plots, if we ever were to get there. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
