Advanced Use of PLPLOT

In this chapter, we describe more precisely how to control the position and scaling of a graph, how to alter the low-level line and character attributes, and how to use the functions in PLPLOT for drawing three-dimensional surface plots and contour plots.

• Basic PLPLOT Concepts
• Specifying the View Surface
• Defining the Viewport
• Defining the Window
• Anotating the Viewport
• The routine plenv
• Setting Line Attributes
• Setting Character and Symbol Attributes
• Escape sequences in text
• Three dimensional surface plots
• Contour Plots