# Makie can't plot sin(1/x) : \`Makie.convert\_arguments\`
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** makie
**Created:** [July 15, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272 "2022-07-15T14:28:13Z")
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### Author:  [@Freya\_the\_Goddess](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Freya_the_Goddess)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272/1 "2022-07-15T14:28:13Z")
Hi all,
I try to plot sin(1/x) by using Makie(CairoMakie)
[https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/tutorials/basic-tutorial/](https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/tutorials/basic-tutorial/)
```julia
using CairoMakie
x = LinRange(0, 10, 100)
y = sin.(1/x)
fig = Figure()
lines(fig[1, 1], x, y, color = :red)
lines(fig[1, 2], x, y, color = :blue)
lines(fig[2, 1:2], x, y, color = :green)
fig
```
There are errors when I do the code above ( I don’t really understand how to convert the arguments), is it impossible to plot sin(1/x) for Makie?
**`Makie.convert_arguments` for the plot type Lines{Tuple{LinRange{Float64, Int64}, LinearAlgebra.Transpose{Float64, Vector{Float64}}}} and its conversion trait PointBased() was unsuccessful.**
**The signature that could not be converted was:**
**::Vector{Float32}, ::Matrix{Float32}**
**Makie needs to convert all plot input arguments to types that can be consumed by the backends (typically Arrays with Float32 elements).**
**You can define a method for `Makie.convert_arguments` (a type recipe) for these types or their supertypes to make this set of arguments convertible (See [http://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/recipes.html](http://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/recipes.html)).**
**Alternatively, you can define `Makie.convert_single_argument` for single arguments which have types that are unknown to Makie but which can be converted to known types and fed back to the conversion pipeline.**
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272/2 "2022-07-15T15:37:57Z")
Maybe do `1./x`
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### Author:  [@isaacsas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/isaacsas)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272/3 "2022-07-15T16:32:28Z")
> [@Freya\_the\_Goddess](#):
>
> ```julia
> x = LinRange(0, 10, 100)
> y = sin.(1/x)
>
> ```
As @jules mentioned you need to do `1 ./ x` (note the space) to broadcast the division. `1/x` is doing matrix right division (see the docs).
You probably also don’t want to include `x=0` in your range since `sin(Inf)` is not defined.
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### Author:  [@Freya\_the\_Goddess](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Freya_the_Goddess)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272/4 "2022-07-15T22:13:18Z")
@isaacsas @jules
this is the code, I still can’t plot sin (1/x):
```julia
using CairoMakie, ColorSchemes, Colors
include("/home/browni/LasthrimProjection/makieTheme4.jl") # don't forget to include the theme.
# Generates noise
using Random
Random.seed!(123)
x = -30:0.05:30
# The function
y = sin.(1 ./x)
n=15
y[1:n] = y[1:n] .+ 0.02*randn(n);
fig = Figure(resolution = (600, 400))
ax1 = Axis(fig, xlabel = "x", ylabel = "f(x)",
xgridvisible = false,
ygridvisible = false)
ax2 = Axis(fig, bbox = BBox(140, 260, 260, 350),
xticklabelsize = 12, yticklabelsize = 12,showgrid=false,
#title = "inset at (100, 300, 100, 200)"
)
line1 = lines!(ax1, x, y, color = :red)
# inset
lines!(ax2, x, y, color = :red)
limits!(ax2, -3.1,-1.9,-0.05,0.05)
ax2.yticks = [-0.05,0,0.05]
ax2.xticks = [-3,-2.5,-2]
leg = Legend(fig, [line1], ["f(x)"], halign = :right, valign = :top)
fig[1, 1] = ax1
fig[1, 1] = leg
save("./FigInset1.png", fig, px_per_unit = 1)
fig
```
This is the source:
[https://nbviewer.org/github/lazarusA/MakieNotebooks/blob/main/Makie\_inset.ipynb](https://nbviewer.org/github/lazarusA/MakieNotebooks/blob/main/Makie_inset.ipynb)
Is there any other package to plot an inset? A zoom in at certain x axis for Plotly? or GR? or other package?
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### Author:  [@Freya\_the\_Goddess](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Freya_the_Goddess)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272/5 "2022-07-15T22:20:58Z")
This is working fine:
```julia
using CairoMakie
x = LinRange(-3, 3, 2050)
y = sin.(1 ./x)
fig = Figure()
lines(fig[1, 1], x, y, color = :red)
lines(fig[1, 2], x, y, color = :blue)
lines(fig[2, 1:2], x, y, color = :green)
fig
```
or
```julia
using CairoMakie
x = LinRange(-0.1, 1, 250)
y = sin.(1 ./x)
x1 = LinRange(-1, 0.1, 250)
y1 = sin.(1 ./x)
x2 = LinRange(-30, 3, 250)
y2 = sin.(1 ./x)
fig = Figure()
lines(fig[1, 1], x, y, color = :red)
lines(fig[1, 2], x1, y1, color = :blue)
lines(fig[2, 1:2], x2, y2, color = :green)
fig
```
But, how to put the one here, into one up there?
or
How to modify the one here to become an inset?
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 6:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272/6 "2022-07-16T06:46:37Z")
> [@Freya\_the\_Goddess](#):
>
> But, how to put the one here, into one up there?
Sorry I don’t understand what you mean.
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### Author:  [@Freya\_the\_Goddess](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Freya_the_Goddess)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 7:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272/7 "2022-07-16T07:33:51Z")
Sorry I should be more clear.
I want to create a zoom in of a plot in certain interval, how? I play around with this code:
```julia
using CairoMakie
x = LinRange(-0.1, 1, 250)
y = sin.(1 ./x)
x1 = LinRange(-1, 0.1, 250)
y1 = sin.(1 ./x)
x2 = LinRange(-30, 3, 250)
y2 = sin.(1 ./x)
fig = Figure()
lines(fig[1, 1], x, y, color = :red)
lines(fig[1, 2], x1, y1, color = :blue)
lines(fig[2, 1:2], x2, y2, color = :green)
fig
```
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### Author:  [@braamvandyk](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/braamvandyk)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 8:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272/8 "2022-07-16T08:02:16Z")
You are reusing x in each line calculating `y`, `y1` and `y2`. I assume you intended to calculate `y1` from `x1` (not `x`) and `y2` from `x2` (also not `x`)
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### Author:  [@Freya\_the\_Goddess](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Freya_the_Goddess)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 8:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-cant-plot-sin-1-x-makie-convert-arguments/84272/9 "2022-07-16T08:44:51Z")
Wow Thanks a lot!!! must have been a miracle for me that you give me this insight.