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From: Eric Belcastro <eric@telltree.com>
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Subject: Re: Plot Nonorthogonal Coordinate Systems
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Jackie:Well since you only need the "convenrsion" of the coordinates when doing the plotting, the solutions is simple to write your own plot function, which takes your coordinates in the special basis, and converts them prior to plotting.

Yes, most certainly - but what I need is a way to > visualize < the results of various computations within the triangular grid, thus I need the triangular tick mark grid that would be naturally created by a nonorthogonal coordinate system.  Without that visual aid, the numbers, so natural on a triangular grid, are just a bunch of dots on a page in the cartesian system, regardless of the accuracy of their placement.  without this visual aid, nothing has been achieved by the visual representation.