Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot representation fidelity

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin writes:
>  > Go ahead and hit us with it....;-)
>
> It finally propagated to me.  Did you get it?
>

Yes, thanks.

I do have some further (perhaps naive) comments.  I wouldn't worry a bit
about increasing the size of the metafile by a factor of four (assuming we
use 64-bit which is what I hope we do).  Disk space and band width are
incredibly cheap now, and the historical trends say they will get a lot
cheaper in the future. It still blows my mind that the 2GB scsi disk I
bought in 1996 cost me $1700.  Now, 2GB of ATA disk space can be had for
$10.

Also, it sounds to me that your present difficulties are because integers
lack dynamic range. Would it be possible to get around that limitation by
switching to (64-bit) floating point instead?

Alan