Re: XForms: tic generation routine

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Tue, 16 Sep 97 06:12:24 PDT

To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> Does anyone know of an available tic generation routine?
> [...]
> The current GenTics misses "0" as one of the tics. In almost all cases "0"
> has a very high priority in tic generation. In anycase it would be better
> to have access to the already existing routine rather than writing one!!

Check Paul Heckbert's article "Nice Numbers for Graph Labels" in
_Graphics Gems_, pp. 61-63. There's easily adapted pseudocode.

spl

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