On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Mike Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:05 AM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Then at least the data can be manipulated.  It seems to me that this
>> should be at least as good as what we already have.    The student
>> suggested that one could even "connect the dots" using some sort of
>> optimization technique.
>>
>> But maybe I'm totally wrong.  I have a bad feeling I'm being naive.  
>> Thoughts?
>
> I think this is worse than handing it off to matplotlib as we do now.
> The data in xy_data_array is just the fast_float'd function evaluated
> on a grid.  The only drawback with the current approach is that it's
> not immediately obvious what the points chosen are.  They come from
> sage.plot.misc.setup_for_eval_on_grid, but are not saved after the
> plot is made since they aren't needed.  The code to compute the ranges
> could be easily factored out of that function and made accessible.
>

Can you elaborate?   I read the above and thought.

Claim: your proposal is worse.
Proof: argument that my proposal is better.

??

> --Mike
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