[yt-dev] Change to defaults of ProjectionPlot and OffAxisProjectionPlot

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I've created a pull request which changes the defaults of the
> ProjectionPlot and OffAxisProjectionPlot, although I'm looking for feedback
> from the community.
>
> Right now, when you create a projection, say for "Density", it labels the
> colorbar with "Density" and then gives its projected units (instead of
> g/cm^3, it gives g/cm^2).  My PR is simply to change the default label to
> be "Projected <field>" in this case "Projected Density (g/cm^2)".
>

+1. I also sort of like the idea of special-casing  - in particular for
density, which I think should show up as "Column Density".


> It will do this in the case of non-weighted projections.
>

Also only when proj_stype = "integrate".


> I think this is the expected behavior and more accurate than the former
> behavior, but I'm open to discussion from the rest of the dev community.
>
> In addition, it might be worthwhile to change the defaults on
> weighted-projections (e.g. density-weighted temperature projection), to
> give it and appropriate label as well, but I'm less convinced of this
> change.  Perhaps something like "<weight_field>-Weighted <field> (units)" ?
>
>

I'm not sure about this.  Whatever we decide on, it should hopefully be
compact.


>
> There is also a PR awaiting approval by John Regan that deals with this
> behavior which will allow users to easily specify whatever label they want
> for the colorbar, but I thought having a sensible default was appropriate
> as well.
>
> Anyway, what do people think about these potential changes?
>
> Cameron
>
>
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> Cameron Hummels
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Steward Observatory
> University of Arizona
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