Re: [matplotlib-devel] autoscaling

2006-08-28 Thread Darren Dale
On Sunday 27 August 2006 22:09, Eric Firing wrote: > Darren Dale wrote: > > A while back, I put some effort into rendering an offset ticklabel, which > > allowed the user to do something like > > > > plot(linspace(10100, 10200, 100)) > > > > and the plot would look like a plot from 0 to 100

Re: [matplotlib-devel] autoscaling

2006-08-28 Thread Eric Firing
Darren Dale wrote: > On Sunday 27 August 2006 22:09, Eric Firing wrote: >> Darren Dale wrote: >>> A while back, I put some effort into rendering an offset ticklabel, which >>> allowed the user to do something like >>> >>> plot(linspace(10100, 10200, 100)) >>> >>> and the plot would look lik

Re: [matplotlib-devel] autoscaling

2006-08-27 Thread Fernando Perez
On 8/27/06, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Baxter wrote: > > > > > I don't know anything about it what happened to the code, but I will > > say that +- 6% autoscaling is better than tight bounds for many kinds > > of plots. Like a scatter plot. It doesn't look good if some of your

Re: [matplotlib-devel] autoscaling

2006-08-27 Thread Eric Firing
Bill Baxter wrote: > > I don't know anything about it what happened to the code, but I will > say that +- 6% autoscaling is better than tight bounds for many kinds > of plots. Like a scatter plot. It doesn't look good if some of your > points are right on the axes, with their marker cut in half

Re: [matplotlib-devel] autoscaling

2006-08-27 Thread Eric Firing
Darren Dale wrote: > A while back, I put some effort into rendering an offset ticklabel, which > allowed the user to do something like > > plot(linspace(10100, 10200, 100)) > > and the plot would look like a plot from 0 to 100, with a "+10100" > rendered in a new label near the far

Re: [matplotlib-devel] autoscaling

2006-08-27 Thread Bill Baxter
On 8/28/06, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while back, I put some effort into rendering an offset ticklabel, which > allowed the user to do something like > > plot(linspace(10100, 10200, 100)) > > and the plot would look like a plot from 0 to 100, with a "+10100" > rendered