Re: negative polar axis

2007-08-13 Thread John K Masters
On 10:58 Mon 13 Aug , Erik Max Francis wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > > About the best interpretation I can think of is to add 180 degrees to > > the angle and reverse the sign of the magnitude, but this would be a > > hack. Where are those coordinates coming from? > > Well, sometimes in

Re: negative polar axis

2007-08-13 Thread Erik Max Francis
Steve Holden wrote: > About the best interpretation I can think of is to add 180 degrees to > the angle and reverse the sign of the magnitude, but this would be a > hack. Where are those coordinates coming from? Well, sometimes in polar coordinates (r, theta), r is allowed to be negative. The

Re: negative polar axis

2007-08-13 Thread Steve Holden
yadin wrote: > hi! > how can i do polar plot in python with negative axes > that is the value of the magnitude is negative > Surely a negative magnitude doesn't make sense in polar coordinates, since the magnitude is supposed to represent the distance from the center. About the best interpretati

negative polar axis

2007-08-13 Thread yadin
hi! how can i do polar plot in python with negative axes that is the value of the magnitude is negative -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list