[yt-users] take_log for plots?

[Matthew Turk]

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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