Re: Incorrect plotting of Lissajous-figures
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- Subject: [mg25902] Re: Incorrect plotting of Lissajous-figures
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:04:53 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, ParametricPlot[] is *not* adaptive like Plot[]. You must give an appropriate number of PlotPoints and ParametricPlot[{Cos[500t], Cos[500t + Pi/4]}, {t, 0, 2Pi}, PlotPoints -> 2000] look as expected. Regards Jens Rene Meyer wrote: > > Hello, > > while using Mathematica 4.0.2.0 to plot a Lissajous-figure with > > ParametricPlot[{Cos[500t], Cos[500t + Pi/4]}, {t, 0, 2Pi}] > > I found that with growing coefficients of t the figure (which should > be a ellipse with an angle of 45 degrees between its longer main axis and > the x axis) have the effect of filling up the whole ellipse with > points. Is this an effect of rounding errors or is this a bug in > mathematica? > > -- > Rene Meyer > Student of Physics - Chemnitz University of Technology