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 > > -- > 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 > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
