Re: [matplotlib-devel] autoscaling

On 8/27/06, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> 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
> > points are right on the axes, with their marker cut in half by the
> > border.  It's always bugged me with Matlab that there was no easy way
> > to get slightly enlarged bounds on plots, so I'm glad to hear mpl has
> > added something like that.  I'm not sure it should be the default, or
> > only option though.  Some plots are better with tight bounds.
>
> Presently it kicks in only in the unusual case of a very small range,
> but it has also occurred to me that it would be nice to be able to tell
> the autoscaling to add a margin in any case.  I just haven't gotten
> around to doing it.

+1 for that.  I've just recently been fixing my limits by hand in this
way precisely to avoid the half-cut markers problem that Bill
describes.

Cheers,

f