Calculation map() Documentation Enhancement

[ronyginosar]

Increasing access

No

Most appropriate sub-area of p5.js?

• Accessibility
• Color
• Core/Environment/Rendering
• Data
• DOM
• Events
• Image
• IO
• Math
• Typography
• Utilities
• WebGL
• Build process
• Unit testing
• Internationalization
• Friendly errors
• Other (specify if possible)
• Documentation
• Calculation

Feature enhancement details

I'd like to propose specifying in the documentation that map() preforms a linear mapping: https://p5js.org/reference/p5/map/
I'd also add a recommendation to use manual mappings for different needs.

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[gulshan-123]

I have updated the documentation. Please check.
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[ksen0]

Hi @ronyginosar ! Can you describe a bit more what you have in mind, please? For example, if I as a user want to map a number x using some non-linear function (sin for example), I can use that function directly (sin(x)). The map function is specifically to simplify linear mapping, which is both very common and also a little bit verbose to write out arithmetically. Or am I misunderstanding the idea?

@gulshan-123 I saw you had made a PR, unfortunately I had to close it as there is not yet a specific decision on this issue, but please feel free to chime in here about this. For work to be approved, the "improve access" question has to be answered, as this is a core value of the project.