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Gnuplot
gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function and data plotting
program. It can produce a large variety of plots and graphs interactively or
in batch mode. It does not have a simple GUI interface, so it is not trivial to
get started.
Documentation is at
http://www.gnuplot.info/docs/gnuplot.html
Examples are at http://www.gnuplot.info/screenshots/index.html
Using gnuplot to produce a pseudo-color or grayscale image of a grid or
matrix.
Example 1
The picture on the right was generated by a data file with 240 rows
of 240 points each. It can be generated by the following commands.
(1) > gnuplot
(2) gnuplot> set xrange [0:239]; set yrange [0:239]
(3) gnuplot> set size ratio 1
(4) gnuplot> set cbrange [0:100]
(5) gnuplot> set pm3d map
(6) gnuplot> set title "Figure 1"
(7) gnuplot> splot 'n3.dat' matrix
- Invoke gnuplot
- Data points in x- and y- direction. Two commands separated by a
semicolon.
- Ratio of y- to x- dimension.
- Values in the data file range from 0 to 100 in value.
- The kind of plot to draw
- Obvious
- Get data from file 'n3.dat'. Data are in form of a matrix.
If you now want to see the same plot in grayscale, type:
gnuplot> set palette gray
gnuplot> replot
If you want to switch back to the default colorscale:
gnuplot> set palette rgbformulae 7,5,15
gnuplot> replot
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Example 2
This example shows:
- Batch processing
- Non-square matrix
- Data file format
- Saving plot as a file
The plot file "Figure2.gif" was generated from n15x20.cmd with
the command gnuplot < n15x20.cmd. The following is a
listing of n15x20.cmd:
set xrange [0:14]; set yrange [0:19]
set size ratio 1.333
set cbrange [0:100]
set pm3d map
set palette gray
set title "Figure 2"
set output 'Figure2.gif'
set terminal gif
splot 'n15x20.txt' matrix
The data file consists of 20 lines, each containing 15 numbers. To
see the actual file in a new window,
click here.
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The line set size ratio 1.333 Says that the y-axis should be
displayed 1.333 times the length of the x-axis. Otherwise gnuplot
will use an inappropriate default and the grid points
will not be square.
Note that even though the data matrix is 15x20, gnuplot scales the
actual picture up or down to what it thinks is a reasonable size for viewing.
In this case, each point in the matrix is displayed in a 20-pixel-square box.
Last Modified: Friday, 27-Mar-2009 09:48:19 EDT