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rodluger / starry

Tools for mapping stars and planets.
https://starry.readthedocs.io
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Figure 18 precision #127

Closed ericagol closed 6 years ago

ericagol commented 6 years ago

I would expect the precision of Spiderman to improve with the number of layers, but the size of the dots appears to be constant for n_layers >= 10. Is this true, or is there a bug in the code that creates the plot? Or perhaps it is too difficult to see a linear decrease in the size of the dots which have a logarithmic scaling?

dflemin3 commented 6 years ago

The Spiderman precision appears to scale linearly with n_layers, so there is an improvement in the precision, but it's pretty small and isn't too apparent on the log scale.