Re: Re: Graphing Functions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg27351] Re: [mg27304] Re: Graphing Functions
- From: BobHanlon at aol.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 03:17:51 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
The "scale" is controlled by the Plot option AspectRatio
Plot[{Sqrt[1-x^2], -Sqrt[1-x^2]}, {x, -1, 1}];
Plot[{Sqrt[1-x^2], -Sqrt[1-x^2]}, {x, -1, 1}, AspectRatio -> 1];
AspectRatio /. Options[Plot]
1/GoldenRatio
N[%]
0.6180339887498948
Bob Hanlon
In a message dated 2001/2/20 3:30:26 AM, dontreply at tothis.ok? writes:
>another question when plotting - is there a way to turn off Mathematica's
>intelligent default for scale of the y axis? I would like to look at the
>functions in a "square" format. (does this make any sense? I guess I
>just
>want the output to be more like a standard graphing calculator...)
>