RE: Re: Plot3D question
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- Subject: [mg70677] RE: [mg70641] Re: Plot3D question
- From: "Erickson Paul-CPTP18" <Paul.Erickson at Motorola.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:49:45 -0400 (EDT)
I think it was just a matter of chance. The numbers you selected (i.e.,
+/-10 and with 100 points) didn't happen to hit on an exact 0 in the
denominator. You could get closer with an odd number of plotpoints and
plotrange all, but still might not hit it depending on the platform.
However, I did hit it and you might as well with:
Plot3D[Sin[x]/y, {x, -8, 8}, {y, -8, 8}, PlotPoints -> 129]
This selection of range of y being of the form 2^n and the number of
points being 1+2^m would likely get some complaints starting out with
either divide by 0 or result of infinity.
Hope that helps ?
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: dimitris [mailto:dimmechan at yahoo.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg70677] [mg70641] Re: Plot3D question
I would like to apologise for the mistakes which obviously contained my
previous post.
Here comes the correct one:
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I would like to know why the Plot3D function does not complain about
the following command (note there is a singularity at y=0)
Plot3D[Sin[x]/y, {x, -10, 10}, {y, -10, 10}]
whereas it does complain (a lot!) about the following
Plot3D[Sin[x]/y, {x, -10, 10}, {y, 0 10}]
I believe it has to do with the non-adaptive algorithm used by Plot3D,
but even the command
Plot3D[Sin[x]/y, {x, -10, 10}, {y, -10, 10},PlotPoints->100]
does not change the behavior.
Note that I don't have any problem why the Plot function does not
complain about the following command
Plot[Sin[x]/x, {x, 0, 10}];
since I understand that the adaptive algorithm actually does not sample
points at x=0
Cases[%, {(x_)?NumberQ, (y_)?NumberQ} /;
x >= 0 && y > 0.9, Infinity]
I really appreciate any comments/guidance/insight.
Thanks
Dimitris