On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 01:56:01AM +0100, K.-Michael Aye wrote: > is there a way to have warp_scale='auto' as the default?
A long time ago, Prabhu and I had an argument about that. My view was that 'auto' should be on by default, because I could see that users would be tricked like you where. Prabhu's view was that it would be inconsistent with the rest of Mayavi which works in 'real' scale. When 2 planes are orthogonal in the data, they can be excepted to be orthogonal on the figure by default. > I just spend a whole hour, thinking that my data was corrupt, and all i > had not taken care of was the scale of the z-axis, the same problem I > even had before a few months ago. > It might be mathematically more correct to have z being scaled the same > as x and y, but for geospatial works, the elevation (or any other > z-axis value) has mostly vastly different scales than their mapping > coordinates on ground. Fair enough. I can see that users might be tricked. One option would be to raise a warning if the aspect ratio is less than say 0.01. Do you think you could write a patch for that? It would be great. > I believe, a default for this could also help 'switchers' from Matlab, > because there as well no setting of the scale is required it seems. You know, switchers from Matlab is a fairly small argument. I can see the value, but having switched from Matlab a long time ago, I find that I really hate the inconsistencies of Matlab when I use it. I would rather not go the Octave way and try to reproduce the logic of Matlab if it does not fit the logic of the software. Best, Gael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ MayaVi-users mailing list MayaVi-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mayavi-users
