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- From: edwin@dutind2.twi.tudelft.nl (Edwin Vollebregt)
- Subject: plots with different options in one picture?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.101642.28797@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:16:42 GMT
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- Dear Netters,
-
- Currently I'm working on a finite difference program for calculating
- the flow of water in some region. I'm trying to provide graphical output
- with GNUplot. I'm having a lot of difficulties, and that's why I'm turning
- to you all out there.
-
- Here are some of the things that I want GNUplot to do. I can't find out
- how they are possible, if they are.
- Questions:
- - do you know how I can make the desired plots?
- - if GNUplot is not capable of something, do you think that it
- SHOULD BE, are you experiencing the same problems?
-
- Consider some 2D region, e.g. a lake. Define a grid, and the depth
- at each grid-point d(x,y). The grid g(x,y) looks like:
- 0 0 1 1 0
- 1 1 1 1 1
- 0 1 1 0 0
-
- 1) Can I plot the 3D surface d(x,y) and the contour-lines of g(x,y) in
- one picture? (especially the contour g(x,y) = 0.5 is interesting,
- because it is the outline of the lake)
-
- 2) Can I plot the 3D surface d(x,y) in non-parametric mode (hidden line)
- and the outline of the lake in parametric mode (a number of coordinate
- points) ?
-
- 3) Can I plot the 3D surface d(x,y) with data-style lines and the grid-
- points with data-style points ?
-
- These three questions can be summarized by:
- Is it possible to show plots with different options ((no) contour,
- data-style, 2D/3D, (non)parametric, ...) in one picture ?
-
- Now consider the currents in the lake. In each grid-point we know the
- U velocity in x-direction and V velocity in y-direction.
- e.g. ^ -- - \
- y | / - \ |
- \ -- - /
- -> x
-
- 4) Can I plot the vector-field (U(x,y), V(x,y)) in a 2D picture in some
- other way than using set arrow from x, y to x+U, y+V all the time ?
-
- 5) Can I draw the outline of the lake in there too ?
-
- Maybe I haven't looked at GNUplot good enough, or am I asking too much.
- But when you have the same problems, it might be worth while to extend
- GNUplot with some new features.
-
- Now, after reading all this stuff, it can't be too much when asking for
- your reply.
- Hope to hear from you soon,
- Edwin
- _________________________________________________________________________
- | | | |
- | Ir. E.A.H. Vollebregt | Section of Applied Mathematics | ,==. |
- | | Delft University of Technology | /@ | |
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- Why bother about graphics programs, when you can make such nice
- pictures with the ASCII set only...
-
-