[yt-dev] axes units behaving correctly?

Chris Malone chris.m.malone at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 12:35:57 PDT 2014


Yup.  That one was screwy, and I had no idea what to think of it.  Filed
here
https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issue/915/sliceplot-fails-with-odd-combination-of

I'm trying to understand if the second plot is working as intended.  I'm
happy to change my intuition about units, but I would like some
clarification.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That last plot looks like you're exposing a bug to me.  Can you file an
> issue?
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Chris Malone <chris.m.malone at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I'm seeing some behavior[1] with units of axes that seems
>> counter-intuitive, but maybe I need to change my intuition.
>>
>> In particular, if one makes a slice plot, but specifies the width of the
>> plot in units of 'code_length' - for example, from using domain_right_edge
>> - the units aren't properly converted to whatever was set as
>> `ds.length_unit`.  Is this working as intended?  Are users expected to
>> manually apply `.in_cgs()` to such items that have code_length?  Naively, I
>> would expect that when units are displayed, if they are code_* units, they
>> should be converted to whatever is declared in
>> `ds._set_code_unit_attributes`.
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/dl.dropbox.com/s/bf62wclpjduvlit/example.ipynb?dl=0
>>
>> Chris
>>
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