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Re: Mathematica 6.0 easier for me ... (small review)

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• Subject: [mg76578] Re: Mathematica 6.0 easier for me ... (small review)
• From: Helen Read <read at math.uvm.edu>
• Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 06:05:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Paul at desinc.com wrote:
> 
> 3.  What wasn't there is finally there.  The graphics commands are
> MUCH, MUCH better. Rotatable graphics that stay rotated when rendering
> again is awesome.  I'm also addicted to Manipulate[].  Most
> incredible.

Agreed. And the Graphics Inspector and Drawing Tools are awfully nice.

> 6.  Very few gotchas.  I have only found one, though it keeps biting
> me.  If I have two lists, one from 0-100 in both axis and the other
> from 0-1000 in both axis, Show[] will truncate!
> 
> lisA = Table[i^2, {i, 0, 1000}];
> lisB = Table[i, {i, 0, 100}];
> p1 = ListPlot[lisA, Joined -> True];
> p2 = ListPlot[lisB, Joined -> True];
> Show[p1, p2]
> Show[p2, p1]
> 
> The first plot parameter to Show[] determines truncation.  5.2 did not
> do this!!  Of course, change Joined to PlotJoined for 5.2.  A small
> gotcha, but never the less a gotcha that burned me once already.  My
> fault.  New is not worse, just different.  To me, Show[] simply
> Showed.  Now it is not.  PlotRange->All fixes this.  I wish there was
> a way to default to All for Show[].

The documentation for Show says that the PlotRange is set by the first 
graphic in the list of graphics you are showing, and to see everything 
you should use PlotRange->Automatic. PlotRange->Automatic was the 
default (as it seems to have been in 5.2). No idea why they changed 
this; it's a pain the neck to have to set the PlotRange all the time in 
Show.

Another little thing: I'd like the ability to set a different color 
scheme (perhaps a user defined color scheme) to be used for plots. I 
find that if I plot two functions together without setting a PlotStyle 
that the blue and purply colors Mathematica uses are a bit difficult to 
distinguish. I'd like the first two colors to be say, blue and red.

> Nice job to Wolfram.  Can't wait to see 6.1 :)

Agreed.

--
Helen Read
University of Vermont

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