Would it be workable for the default to be proportional to the size of the
array passed in? (suggested only because I do that myself, when deciding how
coarse an investigative plot I can get away with.)
&C
On Dec 11, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Ethan Gutmann <ethan.gutm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This is because the default rstride and cstride arguments is 10, IIRC.
> > Since your array is only 12x12, the surface plotting is barely plotting
> > anything. Try calling:
> >
> > ax.plot_surface(x, y, a, rstride=1, cstride=1)
>
>
> You know, this has tripped me up a few times too. I don't use plot_surface
> often enough to always remember this, and it is not the first parameter I
> think to check when debugging a program. Is there a reason the default
> rstride and cstride aren't 1 other than possible memory constraints for large
> arrays?
>
> I suppose changing the defaults might break programs that rely on this
> behavior, but if this API ever gets revamped, consider this a request to make
> 1 be the default instead. I would think that the default should be that the
> obvious command "just works" while plots that may require too much memory can
> be tweaked to work faster (I'm assuming that is the reason for the default of
> 10).
>
>
> I actually don't know the reason for the defaults (I didn't create mplot3d),
> but that has always been my suspicion. There is an existing PR to change the
> default behavior to be somewhat "automatic". At the time, I wasn't really in
> favor of it, but when looked in this light, it does make some more sense.
>
> I'll have to think about this a bit more.
> Ben Root
>
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