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No strict ticks found for exponentially small limits

Open ffreyer opened this issue 11 months ago • 2 comments

While testing for https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/pull/3681 I noticed that tick finding has problems with small numbers, starting around PlotUtils.optimize_ticks(1e-17, 10e-17). It would be nice if we could push this a bit further.

For large values even PlotUtils.optimize_ticks(1e200, 10e200) still works.

ffreyer avatar Mar 13 '24 16:03 ffreyer

This is a particular issue in GeoMakie when zooming in to small areas on geographic plots!

asinghvi17 avatar Mar 13 '24 17:03 asinghvi17

I think an easy workaround would be to scale the inputs and then scale back after. Or pass a bigger number type. Though I'm not sure that function is written generic enough for that.

I don't see how we could alter the function to work with values below machine epsilon for Float64 input TBH.

BeastyBlacksmith avatar Mar 14 '24 09:03 BeastyBlacksmith