[yt-users] take_log for plots?

[John ZuHone]

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

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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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