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Re: How to rescale the x-axis in an nonlinear way?

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  • Subject: [mg112464] Re: How to rescale the x-axis in an nonlinear way?
  • From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:00:48 -0400 (EDT)

I don't know if I understand precisely what is wanted, but with the
Presentations package you could use CustomTicks. The problem is that one
needs the inverse function. Here is an example.

Needs["Presentations`Master`"] 

x[t_] := 1 + 10^t - E^t 

In the domain 0 < t < 2 this is monotonic so we can get the inverse function
with NDSolve.

Clear[t] 
NDSolve[{t'[x] == 1/x'[t[x]], t[1] == 0}, t, {x, 1, 100}][[1, 1]]; 
t[x_] = t[x] /. % 

Then a plot with the new x scale is:

xticks = CustomTicks[t, {0, 80, 10, 5}] // Quiet;
Draw2D[
 {Draw[Tanh[x[t]], {t, 0, 2}, PlotRange -> All]},
 Frame -> True,
 AspectRatio -> 1,
 PlotRange -> All, 
 FrameTicks -> {{Automatic, Automatic}, {xticks, 
    xticks // NoTickLabels}}] 

I don't especially like it, but there it is.


David Park
djmpark at comcast.net
http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/  



From: Liyi Li [mailto:llybt.ebay at googlemail.com] 


Hello, everyone,

I am trying to plot out some data and on the x-axis, which is a log-
like scale (acutally it is a different function).
For example, I want the x sacled like this: 1 + 10^x -  E^x, so as the
ticks.
How can I do that?

thank you.



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