[vtk-developers] Tick position calculation in vtkAxis

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Tharindu De Silva <tsameera1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>           I have uploaded the implementation of the paper ,  "An Extension
> of Wilkinson’s Algorithm for Positioning Tick Labels on Axes"
> (http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2010-TickLabels-InfoVis.pdf) to gerrit for
> review (http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,2473)  The paper implements
> the automated system for choosing positions and labels for axis tick
> marks.The methods contained in the paper are mainly contained in a class
> named vtkAxisExtended.   I made also some changes to the vtkAxis class to
> incorporate some additional functions described in the paper.
> This is an optimization based algorithm.  If the algorithm fails to come up
> with a good labeling scheme, as a last resort, it tries changing the font
> size, format and orientation of the labels.  There are eight different axis
> label formats in this implementation.

Hi Tharindu,

Thanks for getting all of this to the list, Jeff and I will work on
getting this integrated into VTK. It looks like a great addition to
the charts, and I will be putting it through its paces today. There
may be questions as I go.

Marcus
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