Re: Is there a Bug in Plot function ?
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- Subject: [mg5125] Re: Is there a Bug in Plot function ?
- From: haberndt at dnai.com (Harald Berndt)
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:05:01 -0500
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In article <556ocr$nac at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, "Christopher R. Carlen"
<crobc at epix.net> wrote:
> I plotted a rather simple function via:
>
> k = 1;
> dk = 0.1;
>
> W[x_] = 2 Cos[ 2 Pi ( dk/2 x ) ] Sin[ 2 Pi ( k x ) ]
>
> Plot[ W[x,0] , {x,-20,20}, PlotStyle->{Thickness[0.002]} ]
>
>
> and the resulting plot has severe problems, such as straight lines
> connecting points on the curve where the sinusoidal cycles that
> should have appeared simply were skipped.
> [ .... cuts .... ]
This has to do with Mathematica's intelligent sampling algorithm. You need
to look at all options of Plot to find some useful ones. The most obvious
improvement for your situation is to increase PlotPoints, say
PlotPoints-> 30
Try it, you'll like it!
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