https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=2884%3A_Log_Alignment2884: Log Alignment - Revision history2026-05-19T12:44:27ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2884:_Log_Alignment&diff=359632&oldid=prevJkshapiro: /* Explanation */ No, it isn't2024-12-17T00:19:18Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Explanation: </span> No, it isn't</span></p>
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</table>Jkshapirohttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2884:_Log_Alignment&diff=355100&oldid=prev172.70.160.254: Undo revision 355098 by 172.70.122.188 (talk) Seems no reason (or precedent) to hiding the Discussion/"Talk:"-page transclusion in this way.2024-10-30T10:24:55Z<p>Undo revision 355098 by <a href="/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/172.70.122.188" title="Special:Contributions/172.70.122.188">172.70.122.188</a> (<a href="/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:172.70.122.188&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:172.70.122.188 (page does not exist)">talk</a>) Seems no reason (or precedent) to hiding the Discussion/"Talk:"-page transclusion in this way.</p>
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</table>172.70.122.188https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2884:_Log_Alignment&diff=352613&oldid=prevXurkitree10: /* Transcript */2024-10-10T19:26:22Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Transcript</span></span></p>
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</table>Xurkitree10https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2884:_Log_Alignment&diff=333762&oldid=prevB for brain: /* Explanation */2024-01-29T20:51:53Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Explanation</span></span></p>
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</table>162.158.74.48https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2884:_Log_Alignment&diff=333662&oldid=prev162.158.74.49: /* Explanation */ Ok, so starting with a cold-opening "The joke is" just did not work. Keeping most of what was there (rearranging and adding a little more about the Skew-T stuff), I *think* I've restored some basic narrative sense. Always improvable!2024-01-27T22:05:29Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Explanation: </span> Ok, so starting with a cold-opening "The joke is" just did not work. Keeping most of what was there (rearranging and adding a little more about the Skew-T stuff), I *think* I've restored some basic narrative sense. Always improvable!</span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The joke is that </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">log chart can be seen </del>as the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">result of logarithmically compressing </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">normal chart</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Normal parallel </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">perpendicular axes remain straight lines when doing this; lines that aren</del>'<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">t parallel or perpendicular </del>to the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">squishing process get turned into curves </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact kind depicted</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In the comic, we see </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">background distribution of straight and parallel (but notably off-orthogonal) lines, such </ins>as <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">might normally define </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">log-magnitude on </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">log-log or semi-log graph</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But there are no perpendicular gradations ''</ins>and'<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">' the bar graph drawn upon it appears </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">have no relation with </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">background, drawn distorted in an almost {{w|Salvador Dalí|Dalíesque}} manner, as if it were a projection </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">one twisted in 3d space. Both its bars and </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">base/vertical axes seem to have no relation to the supposed underlying log-scale</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">With the slight exception of the bar tops crossing the log lines at an angle, and the curved vertical axis having {{w|graduation (scale)|graduation ticks}} that bear no linear ''or'' log relation with the intersecting background, the distorted bars only travel unidirectionally across the underlying parallels and ''could'' feasibly be read as indicating a definitive magnitude (or range) of some kind. Or at least could with number-labels to give an idea of what values to associate with each log-line. That two bars appear from outside the frame of the comic (the base axis having fallen out of the bottom of the frame) might not even matter, so long as we can work out what quality or sample each of the bars represents (being similarly unlabeled).</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Whilst </del>a plot ''can'' be made according to measures not consistent with the graph axes, especially where [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Curvature-introduced-by-pen-type-recording-system-Comparison-of-a-raw-seismogram-showing_fig5_364100386 other factors dictate the plotting], it is more common to make use of {{w|Graph paper#Examples|variant grid systems}}.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The humour in the is that a more practical log-chart can be seen as the result of logarithmically compressing </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">normal chart in one or both axes. Normal parallel and perpendicular axes remain straight lines when doing this; lines that aren't parallel or perpendicular to the squishing process get turned into curves of the exact kind depicted.  A </ins>plot ''can'' be made according to measures not consistent with the graph axes, especially where [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Curvature-introduced-by-pen-type-recording-system-Comparison-of-a-raw-seismogram-showing_fig5_364100386 other factors dictate the plotting], <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but then </ins>it is more common to make use of {{w|Graph paper#Examples|variant grid systems}}.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Skewed log charts are real and occur in fields of science with useful applications. For example, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a diagram called </del>a "Skew-T <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Log</del>-P" <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">chart </del>depicts the relationship between temperature and pressure of a parcel of air in the atmosphere. On this chart, the x-axis is skewed with relation to the rest of the graph, and its isotherms, or lines of equal temperature, slant diagonally upwards and to the right of the diagram. The y-axis is normal and represents pressure on a log scale. A more detailed explanation can be found [https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/upperair/skew-t-log-p-diagrams here].</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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</table>162.158.74.49https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2884:_Log_Alignment&diff=333626&oldid=prev172.71.178.60: Restoring both the humorous and instructional elements, retaining the 'new' objection. I agree that editing has fragmented the tale being told, somewhat, but can't do anything about it right now.2024-01-27T08:36:43Z<p>Restoring both the humorous and instructional elements, retaining the 'new' objection. I agree that editing has fragmented the tale being told, somewhat, but can't do anything about it right now.</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The joke is that a log chart can be seen as the result of logarithmically compressing a normal chart. Normal parallel and perpendicular axes remain straight lines when doing this; lines that aren't parallel or perpendicular to the squishing process get turned into curves of the exact kind depicted.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The joke is that a log chart can be seen as the result of logarithmically compressing a normal chart. Normal parallel and perpendicular axes remain straight lines when doing this; lines that aren't parallel or perpendicular to the squishing process get turned into curves of the exact kind depicted.</div></td></tr>
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