When I create a simple x-y plot, I would expect that the ticks woiuld increase in size as the samples in my data would increase. And that seems to be mostly the case. If I do a plot([0,1], [0, 1.8]), then my y-axis has ticks spaced 0.2 apart. If I do a plot([0,1], [0, 2.1]), then my y-axis has ticks spaced 0.5 apart. However, the max value is between 1.4 and 1.5, the tick spacing is 0.5 instead of 0.2, so there are not many ticks shown on the plot. I created a script to show how the tick increment is inconsistent.
Is this a bug, or is there some reason for this?
lim = logspace(log10(1), log10(10), 200)';
tick = zeros(length(lim), 1);
p=plot([0,1], [0, lim(n)]);
tick(n) = p.Parent.YTick(2);
xlabel('Max plot line value');
ylabel('Tick increment');
p.Parent.XTick = [1;1.4;1.5;2;5;10];
p.Parent.XTickLabel = arrayfun(@num2str, p.Parent.XTick, 'UniformOutput', false);
p.Parent.YTick = [0.1;0.2;0.5;1];
p.Parent.YTickLabel = arrayfun(@num2str, p.Parent.YTick, 'UniformOutput', false);
