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Re: Show and GraphicsArray and DisplayFunction

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  • Subject: [mg41265] Re: [mg41260] Show and GraphicsArray and DisplayFunction
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 03:48:53 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I am not quite sure what you mean by "why"? The "mechanism" or "what is 
the use of it"?
As to the former:  GraphicsArray has a DisplayFunction option which is 
separate from the one in Graphics, so you can set them independently. 
For example by setting

SetOptions[GraphicsArray, DisplayFunction -> Identity];

you can produce the opposite effect to the one in your example:

plot = Plot[x^2, {x, -1, 1}]

draws a picture but

Show[GraphicsArray[{plot,plot}]]

GraphicsArray

produces no picture. That seems to me all one can say about the 
mechanism. If, one the other hand,  by "why" you mean "what is the use 
of it", well it seems to me that this is obviously the more flexible 
approach compared to having just GraphicsArray inherit its 
DisplayFunction setting.

Andrzej Kozlowski
Yokohama, Japan
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/
http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/




On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 05:04  pm, Blimbaum Jerry DLPC wrote:

> Here is something I have always been curious about....
>
> Suppose I make two plots :
>
> p1=Plot[f[x],......,DisplayFunction->Identity]
>
> p2=Plot[g[x],.....,DisplayFunction->Identity]
>
>
> If i combine them with Show ,i have to do this:
>
> Show[p1,p2,DisplayFunction->$DisplayFunction];
>
>
> but if I show them in GraphicsArray format....i can exclude the
> DisplayFunction command....
>
> Show[GraphicsArray[{p1,p2}]]......this outputs the plots...admittedly, 
> as 2
> separate plots, but still....
>
> why the difference in terms of the need for  DisplayFunction....?
>
>
> jerry blimbaum   NSWC  Panama City, Fl
>
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