Re: How to rescale the x-axis in an nonlinear way?
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- Subject: [mg112448] Re: How to rescale the x-axis in an nonlinear way?
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:03:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Dan,
The plot doesn't show anything for me. Looks like InverseFunction only
works for some simple functions. Using FindRoot it seems to work
better:
xinverse[i_] := x /. FindRoot[xscale[x] == i, {x, 1}]
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Sep 15, 10:37 am, dr DanW <dmaxwar... at gmail.com> wrote:
> You have to scale the plot and the ticks manually, as in
>
> xscale = 1 + 10^#1 - E^#1 & ;
>
> xinverse = InverseFunction[xscale];
>
> Plot[Tanh[xinverse[sx]], {sx, xscale[0], xscale[1.]},
> Ticks -> {({xscale[#1], #1} & ) /@ {0, 0.4, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1},
> Automatic}]
>
> Where I am plotting the Tanh[] function on your scaled x-axis. The
> Ticks option lets me choose where I want each tick and how to label
> them.
>
> There are hints from Wolfram in one of their video blogs that the next
> version of Mathematica will have a way of doing general axis scaling.
>
> Daniel