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gnuplot Cookbook

You're reading from   gnuplot Cookbook Visual guide to every kind of graph you can make with this plotting software with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517249
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lee Phillips Lee Phillips
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

gnuplot Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Plotting Curves, Boxes, Points, and more FREE CHAPTER 2. Annotating with Labels and Legends 3. Applying Colors and Styles 4. Controlling your Tics 5. Combining Multiple Plots 6. Including Plots in Documents 7. Programming gnuplot and Dealing with Data 8. The Third Dimension 9. Using and Making Graphical User Interfaces 10. Surveying Special Topics Finding Help and Information
Index

Making a surface plot


A surface plot represents the dependent quantity z, which depends on the two independent variables x and y, as a surface whose height indicates the value of z.

The previous figure is a perspective drawing of a surface representing the Bessel function J0(r), where r is the distance from (x=0, y=0). The height of the surface shows the value of J0, given on the vertical axis (unlabeled in this figure, but usually called z). The other two (unlabeled) axes defining the plane above which the surface is drawn are the x and y axes.

How to do it…

The following code listing is the script that coaxed gnuplot into making the previous figure:

set isosamples 40
unset key
set title "J_0(r^2)"
set xrange [-4:4]
set yrange [-4:4]
set ztics 1
splot besj0(x**2+y**2)
set view 29,53 #Done implicitly by mousing.
set term pngcairo mono enhanced
set out 'bessel.png'
replot

How it works…

There are several new commands in this recipe. The set isosamples command sets the isoline density. This is...

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