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it's time, probably -jade [[Special:Contributions/172.69.64.198|172.69.64.198]] 20:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 
it's time, probably -jade [[Special:Contributions/172.69.64.198|172.69.64.198]] 20:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
  
There seems to be a subtle relativity joke in the title text, with misalignments in both time and space being a reference to spacetime.
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There seems to be a subtle relativity joke in the title text, with misalignments in both time and space being a reference to spacetime. {{unsigned ip|172.71.154.42|00:05, 23 January 2024}}
  
== Un-Transform the Graph ==
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Shall we try to straighten out the plot with regards to the axes, leaving the log stripes all wavy? For kicks? {{unsigned|Enfield|02:14, 23 January 2024}}
  
Shall we try to straighten out the plot with regards to the axes, leaving the log stripes all wavy? For kicks?
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I feel like this comic, along with others like 2023: Y-Axis and 2311: Confidence Interval should go in a category for misleading charts. -- {{unsigned ip|172.69.33.111|02:23, 23 January 2024}}
 
 
I feel like this comic, along with others like 2023: Y-Axis and 2311: Confidence Interval should go in a category for misleading charts. --
 

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so does anybody know how a video with a misaligned log scale even looks? like what does a log scale even mean for a video? 172.71.99.18 19:30, 22 January 2024 (UTC)mstrofcmdy209

I think he's suggesting that the video shows the changes in a graph over time, and the misalignment could also change during the video. Barmar (talk) 20:47, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Imagine that a plot is just a 2D picture, or even more fundamentally as a function taking two variables and returning a pixel color. Changing an axis of the plot to be logarithmic is equivalent to applying a non-uniform scaling to one of the input variables to that function. In this comic that non-uniform scaling has instead been applied along an axis that does not correspond to either the X or Y axes but instead some combination of the two. A video can similarly be thought of as a function of 3 variables (X, Y, T) and so the non-uniform log scaling could be applied along an axis that is some combination of the X, T, and T axes. 172.71.154.252 23:37, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

it's time, probably -jade 172.69.64.198 20:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

There seems to be a subtle relativity joke in the title text, with misalignments in both time and space being a reference to spacetime. 172.71.154.42 (talk) 00:05, 23 January 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Shall we try to straighten out the plot with regards to the axes, leaving the log stripes all wavy? For kicks? -- Enfield (talk) 02:14, 23 January 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I feel like this comic, along with others like 2023: Y-Axis and 2311: Confidence Interval should go in a category for misleading charts. -- 172.69.33.111 (talk) 02:23, 23 January 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)