Yes!!!!! I wish that were stated in the sphinx documentation! On Apr 27, 8:48 pm, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > 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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