On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:17 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 29, 3:51 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:22 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Try frame_aspect_ratio, which is probably what you really want >> given your questions. > > Hmm. You're right -- that it is probably what I really want -- but I > still don't understand aspect_ratio. Why, if I change aspect_ratio > from [1,1,1] to [1,1,2], do the relative scalings of the x- and y-axes > change? Shouldn't only the z-axis (relative to x and y) be affected? > > I guess I find the behavior of aspect_ratio rather unpredictable. With > > P = sphere() > P.show(aspect_ratio=[a,b,c]) > > it makes sense: the coordinate system, and hence the sphere, is > stretched by these factors. However, with the plot that I mentioned > in my original post, it seems to behave oddly, as mentioned above: > changing from [1,1,1] to [1,1,2] altered the relative scales on the x > and y axes.
If it just doesn't make sense to you, even after you've thought about it and read the docs, then I think it's buggy! We can talk about it when I'm back in Seattle (e.g., tomorrow)... -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
