If there are too many ticks generated for the y-axis (which can occur
for log scale 2, with a small y-min and a large max), then the ticks
will be regenerated using larger jumps between the ticks.

This also handles the case when y-min is set to 0. Previously, y-min of
0 was ignored as zero is not a valid value for log scale. Now the tick
generator approximates zero by setting min to 0.1.

Ref #8244

Ref #8516