Re: log scale

• To: jullius <montecarlo136@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: log scale
• From: Bill Hibbard <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 15:00:29 -0500 (CDT)

Hi Julius,

> My daughter is using VisAD for a high school science project. She asked me if
> there is a widget that would allow her to change the scale of a plot, or
> preferably, change each axis individually on a plot  from linear to log and
> vice versa. I do not think that there is such a widget, but I am not sure. (I
> have not used VisAD since 98).  I would appreciate if somebody could help me.
>
> If there is no such a widget, I also would appreciate if somebody could
> suggest an easy way for her to write one?

See:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/visad-list/1983

which includes a sample program for doing this. It isn't just
a simple widget, but it does get the job done using a custom
LogCoordinateSystem and explcitly setting axis labels.

Good luck,
Bill

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  • log scale
    • From: jullius