On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:42 AM, John Wise
Hi Nathan,
I think the default image size is fine at 1000x1000px, which fits on a 1920x1080 screen nicely. Screen resolution is going to continue increasing, and I don't think it's a good idea to decrease the default. If anything, it should increase in the future. For data inspection, I'd rather scroll around large (e.g. 4000x4000) image than zooming/re-centering a 600x600 image numerous times.
Also, I agree with Matt that we shouldn't be optimizing for notebook operation yet. Although notebooks are great for interactivity, I find it painfully slow to edit and re-run scripts (even with keyboard shortcuts) when compared to an editor + image viewer.
Is there a way to make the plot window aware that it's embedded in a notebook and adjust the default image size accordingly? I think that would be a good plan, if it's technically possible.
Unfortunately no. See this e-mail thread: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/2014-February/013234.html We could scale down the plot using css, but I don't think that's a good solution since it will make the axes text, tick marks, and colorbar label harder to read.
Cheers, John
On 03/16/2014 01:42 PM, Nathan Goldbaum wrote:
Hi all,
I recently opened a PR that fixes a number of bugs in yt's plotting code. Hopefully this will fix many common visual issues that show up in yt plots.
As part of the PR I decided to change the default size of yt plots from 8 inches to 6. My justification is that the current default will create a plot that overflows an IPython notebook output cell, particularly on small displays.
The PR is here: https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/pull-request/723/ fixing-some-longstanding-issues-with-plot/diff#comment-1433174
The discussion about the figure size is here: https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/pull-request/723/ fixing-some-longstanding-issues-with-plot/diff#comment-1432943
As I mention in the PR description I'm willing to back down on this change if the consensus is that this is a bad idea.
Matt has already come out against the change, but before I revert it I wanted to bring it up here and get opinions from other people.
Thanks for your help :)
-Nathan
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