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From: amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Selection of Axes scale, intervals for a set of points
Message-ID: <2656@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 25 Apr 88 20:52:03 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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Keywords: need an algorithm

I looked in the library till my head hurt (I'm no expert at library
use), so I'm going to ask if any netter can refer me to (or supply) a
good algorithm for determining "nice" ranges and intervals for 
plotting a set of points.  I can have the points "on hand", so I'll know
the max and min for both x and y components.  Then...
it's sorta tricky to have the computer apply the same hazy decisions a
person would use in determining an appealing set of axes for the graph.
Can anyone help me and keep me from reinventing the wheel?

-- 
amlovell@phoenix.princeton.edu     ...since 1963.

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