Re: [Matplotlib-users] Strange Plotting Behavior When Extremely Zoomed

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> I was able to reproduce it on 0.90.1 and 0.91.2, but not SVN trunk.  This
> could be because the affine transformation that does the zooming in now
> happening within the Agg backend rather than at the Python level -- i.e.
> there are fewer opportunities for floating-point underflow and the like.  Of
> course, SVN trunk is not yet considered stable enough for general usage,
> unfortunately.  However, it may be too difficult to fix this in earlier
> versions, because I suspect the fix would involve a fairly significant
> overhaul of where these transformations take place.

Fixing this on the maintenance branch is definitely not a priority.
We've lived with this one for years and it only arises in extreme
zooming.  Since it is fixed on the trunk, we can be happy for that.

Thanks,
JDH