Re: Logarithmic histogram

2001-02-08 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Monday, 5 Feb 2001, Jay Cox wrote: Linear, Log, and sqrt are all common ways to scale histograms for display. Perhaps we should make it an option in preferences (or in the histogram display itself). sqrt() - I haddn't thought of that. That sounds plausibly like what Photoshop is using.

Re: Logarithmic histogram

2001-02-08 Thread Roel Schroeven
Linear, Log, and sqrt are all common ways to scale histograms for display. Perhaps we should make it an option in preferences (or in the histogram display itself). sqrt() - I haddn't thought of that. That sounds plausibly like what Photoshop is using. I might have a play with that.

Re: Logarithmic histogram

2001-02-05 Thread Jay Cox
Austin Donnelly wrote: On Sunday, 4 Feb 2001, Roel Schroeven wrote: I noticed in the source code that the histogram widget uses a logarithmic scaling. Is there a reason to do it that way, as Photoshop et al. seem to use a linear scaling. I just checked the CVS history; we've been

Re: Logarithmic histogram

2001-02-04 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Sunday, 4 Feb 2001, Roel Schroeven wrote: I noticed in the source code that the histogram widget uses a logarithmic scaling. Is there a reason to do it that way, as Photoshop et al. seem to use a linear scaling. I just checked the CVS history; we've been using a log y axis (ie pixel

Logarithmic histogram

2001-02-03 Thread Roel Schroeven
I noticed in the source code that the histogram widget uses a logarithmic scaling. Is there a reason to do it that way, as Photoshop et al. seem to use a linear scaling. Sorry if this has been brought up before; I searched in the mailing list archives, but didn't find anything on it.