dataaspectratio

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Aug-2009, J Schreiber wrote:

| I would like to get plots where y and x axis have the same scale.
| 
| this works in matlab, unfortunately not in octave, both win and linux.
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| The ratio depends on the size of the figure window.
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| the following plot does fill the figure window, after the set command 
| the plot is centered in to the middle vertically,
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| (although the get  says, that it had 1 1 1 before)
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| the same when figurewindow is higher than wide.
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| 
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| octave:14> plot(rand(3))
| octave:15> get(gca,'dataaspectratio')
| ans =
| 
|     1   1   1
| 
| octave:16> set(gca,'dataaspectratio',[1 1 1])
| octave:17> ver
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| GNU Octave Version 3.0.0

I'd recommend upgrading to 3.2.2.

jwe