I remember writing some thing like this for CairoPlot. I don't think the patch was excepted. If graphs involve programmers power of 2 numbers are also good num

I remember writing some thing like this for CairoPlot. I don't think the patch was excepted. If graphs involve programmers power of 2 numbers are also good numbers to use not only 0 and 5. Some questions that the algorithm does not answer what is a good number of ticks to put on a segment of X pixels? Also i am sure having phi some place in there would make it more pleasing. Has any one else though at length on the problem?