Re: PlotPoints in plot
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- Subject: [mg48595] Re: PlotPoints in plot
- From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 19:58:18 -0400 (EDT)
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>> You can force Mathematica to not sample more points then specified
by PlotPoints by setting PlotDivision to 1
No, you can't.
Bobby
Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<c9sdj1$c6a$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> On 6/4/04 at 4:49 AM, mathma18 at hotmail.com ("G.L.Narasimham") wrote:
>
> >For the plot command Plot[Sqrt[1-x^2],{x,-1,1},PlotPoints->3] I
> >expected to see a triangle joining 3 points on a circle, but a
> >continuous line ( default PlotPoints->20? )appears.
>
> The PlotPoints option specifies the number of points to initially sample. The actual number of points sampled is determined by a combination of PlotPoints, MaxBend and PlotDivision. What happens is the default settings of MaxBend and PlotDivision cause Mathematica to sample the function sufficiently that you get a smooth curve in this case.
>
> You can force Mathematica to not sample more points then specified by PlotPoints by setting PlotDivision to 1. But I don't think this does what you are looking for.
>
> If I wanted to plot a polygon, I would first create a list of the vertices to be plotted then use ListPlot with PlotJoined->True