Re: goals for 3.1

[Shai Ayal]

On Dec 21, 2007 8:37 PM, Tom Holroyd <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Tick marks is more difficult than one might imagine.
>
> Classic reference:
>         Lewart, C. R., "Algorithms SCALE1, SCALE2, and
>         SCALE3 for Determination of Scales on Computer Generated
>         Plots", Communications of the ACM, 10 (1973), 639-640.
>         Also cited as ACM Algorithm 463.
>
> Here's a python implementation of scale1.
>
> http://kurage.nimh.nih.gov/tomh/tics.py
>
> Dr. Tom

Thanks,

This algorithm still does not take into account the pixel size of the labels.
Is there a similar algorithm for log plots?

Shai