On 4/27/11 10:10 PM, clinton bowen wrote:
Hello,
My question about the thickness attribute for 2d plot functions.
Could somebody explain to me:
1) what does "thickness - How thick the line is" mean? this is
somewhat ambiguous to me. Could somebody elaborate to me what this
means (e.g. thickness = 2 or thickness = 0.2)
2) My guess is that whether a picture of a plot is relative to its
width and height so if I were plotting on the unit square, I won't
see a line or a circle with thickness = .0000002 Is this correct?
Thickness is the thickness of the line measured in points (1/72 of an
inch). The thickness does not depend on the scale of the graph; a line
of thickness 2 points will always appear to be the same width visually,
no matter the scale of the graph. You can think of the thickness as the
size of the pen used to draw the line.
In Sage, we try to make a distinction between "thickness" (which is
independent of the scale of the graph) and "width" (which is measured in
data coordinates, so is dependent on the scale of the graph). Hopefully
we've been consistent in our use of the terminology.
Does that help?
Thanks,
Jason
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