[yt-users] take_log for plots?

[Matthew Turk]

Hi John,

You may have to ensure it redraws, which can be done by setting the
width of the plot again.  This is a problem with the current plotting
engine...

-Matt

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:54 PM, John ZuHone
<jzuhone at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Oddly, your suggestion was what I tried first and it did not work.
>
> I will try Andrew's when I get home.
>
> John
>
> Sent from John ZuHone's iPhone
>
> On Jan 17, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Andrew,
>>
>> That's what I do too, to tell the truth, as it also touches the
>> default binning method inside profile/phase methods.  There's also:
>>
>> p.set_log_field(False)
>>
>> in your script.
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Andrew Myers <atmyers at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> I don't know if there's a better way, but I usually do this by overriding
>>> the default in my script before making my plot, like so:
>>>
>>> pf.field_info["density"].take_log=False
>>>            pc = PlotCollection(pf)
>>>            p = pc.add_ray([pf.domain_left_edge[0],0,0],
>>> [pf.domain_right_edge[0],0,0], "density")
>>>            etc...
>>>
>>> -Andrew Myers
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:58 PM, John ZuHone
>>> <jzuhone at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> A rather simple question that I should probably already know the answer
>>>> to, but here goes:
>>>>
>>>> Many fields are logged by default, which is as it should be. However,
>>>> sometimes the range of the variable is not very large and a log plot just
>>>> doesn't make a lot of sense.
>>>>
>>>> In a slice or a projection plot in a PlotCollection, how does one suppress
>>>> (or, in the opposite case, enable) the logging of the plotted variable
>>>> before saving or displaying the plot?
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping there's a semi-easy way to do this without setting take_log in
>>>> the field definition, but I've not come across it  yet.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> John
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