[Scilab-users] plotplots() in Scilab

[Samuel Gougeon]

Dear all,

Thanks for your first feedbacks. I am somewhat answering in the body of 
this message:

Le 02/04/2021 à 14:49, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit :
> On 02/04/2021 12:16, CRETE Denis wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am also in favour of including this function in Scilab, with an 
>> “improved” name. However, as far as I know, an inset has very 
>> frequently its own pair of axes, as opposed to a ticks-switching in 
>> (only one of) the axes. Thus, I would not recommend a name with 
>> “inset” and reserve it for a function more closely implementing an inset.
>>
>> Zoom is quite appealing.
>>
>> I was wondering about “non-linear”_something…
>>
> Hello Denis,
>
> I'm with you here: this should be included, but the name is not well 
> matching the features of the function.
> Indeed, 'inset' is not at all what 'plot_plot' is offering.
> I was also thinking about "non-linear-axis" or something like that, 
> but I am not sure such a name will improve discoverability of the 
> function.
> But you are right: this is about having non-regular or non-linear axis.
>
> nonlinear-plot ? non-regular-plot ? All this is not convincing for me...
>
You know, i thought very hard about the plotplots() naming before 
finding and choosing this one and first publishing it ;-))

Indeed, plotplots() is not at all about insets, although an actually 
zooming inset plotting separate function could also be useful (with the 
zooming box and possibly rays linking it to the inset).

plotplots() is *not* about zooming or non-linear axis either: it can be 
used with different and only linear scales, without mixing log and lin ones.
So why "plotplots"? Typing "plot" in /Google Translate/ (from english to 
french), i've got and we still get:

So *"plots" is very frequently used with the meanings "parcels, pieces, 
patches, particles, shreds"*.
To me, this is just the right one, close to what the function actually 
addresses: plotting several parcels/pieces/patches of some given graphics.
This led me to this compact -- and i think talkative and meaningful -- 
plotplots() name, that's not (only) a word game.

Other names i thought about were with "multiscaled", or thinks like 
"plot_multiscale". But to me, this could lead to some confusion with 
multiple axes covering the same whole graphic, as documented @ 
https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.1.0/en_US/plot_multiscaled.html.

That's (almost) the whole story about this plotplots() name.
Is it more meaningful to you?

Samuel


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