[yt-dev] ProfileND: soliciting opinions

[John ZuHone]

Unless I'm mistaken I think all Nathan wanted was to be able to specify the min and max of the entire profile, not arbitrary bin edges. 

John ZuHone
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> On Feb 3, 2014, at 5:57 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Feb 3, 2014 5:45 PM, "Nathan Goldbaum" <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > +1.
> >
> > While we're talking about profiles, it would be nice if I could
> > specify the bin limits in the create_profile function - right now they
> > are hard coded to come from the Extrema derived quantity.  This would
> > make it a bit more straightforward to make a ProfilePlot or PhasePlot
> > with custom axes limits.
> >
> 
> I think the idea of create profiles was to stay super minimalist, and encourage using the actual objects for more complex operations. I'm not sure I want to bolt more arguments on rather than making ProfileND easier.
> 
> Specifying bin edges manually could be neat, though, especially for non-uniform bins...
> 
> > It would also be nice if ProfileND returned YTArrays, that's something
> > I was planning to add soonish, but if you guys handle it that would be
> > great.
> 
> Optimistically, no more than 36 hours for that. :) I also hope to have a wrapper for a array_like_field type thing too, to make it easier to copy and duplicate units. Thoughts on that?
> 
> Matt
> 
> >
> > -Nathan
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 1:53 PM, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> I am +1 on this provided that prof.x_bins, etc. remains with the values of the fields at bin edges.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, that would remain the same.
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