# Makie's hidden gems

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makies-hidden-gems/104251>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question, plotting, makie, makielayout\
**Created:** [September 26, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makies-hidden-gems/104251 "2023-09-26T09:59:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![vvbond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vvbond/32/10105_2.png) [@vvbond](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vvbond)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makies-hidden-gems/104251/1 "2023-09-26T09:59:31Z")

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I just came across [this pattern of overloading `Makielayout.get_ticks()` for a custom axis](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/zooming-and-date-axes-in-makie/80790/11) . Such an elegant example of use of Julia’s multiple dispatch for visualization of a bespoke axis type! The automatic support of the axis rescaling (without getting into the weeds of events management) is simply beautiful. Definitely worthy to be included in the [Beautiful Makie](https://beautiful.makie.org/dev/) gallery.

And yet, as far as I am aware, this pattern is completely undocumented. (If not for [the above post](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/zooming-and-date-axes-in-makie/80790) I’d be still unaware of it).

Hence this call: if experts and power users could share here their favourite hidden Makie gems, I believe, it would be greatly appreciated by the wider community.

Thanks!