RE: Thickness Isn't Thickness
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg29931] RE: [mg29918] Thickness Isn't Thickness
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 03:56:57 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I would like to second this complaint. It is one of the minor weaknesses in Mathematica graphics. I also would like to have finer control of the line thickness. There is too large a jump between the minimum thickness and the next larger thickness. Is this machine-monitor dependent? David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > From: aes [mailto:siegman at stanford.edu] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > > The Line drawing capability in Illustrator allows you to select between > what are called "butt", "round", or "projecting" caps as "Stroke > attributes" on the ends of lines. > > Does Mathematica allow anything similar? > > (The Mathematica default seems to be the equivalent of > "projecting caps", which > make for problems if you're trying to have a thickened line intersect a > thinner line or other geometrical figure at 90 degrees, with the > endpoint of the thicker line located on that figure, as is analytically > convenient. The end of the thick line then project through the thinner > line, which is not wanted.) > > (And one could argue that "Thickness", taken literally, should increase > the thickness but NOT the length of a line, as Mathematica unfortunately > does.) >