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Presentation Gnuplot

Gnuplot is a command line driven program for 2D and 3D data visualization and plotting. It has been under active development since 1986 and can plot functions, data, and fitted models. Its plotting engine can also be used by third party applications to generate publication-quality figures in a variety of formats.

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Presentation Gnuplot

Gnuplot is a command line driven program for 2D and 3D data visualization and plotting. It has been under active development since 1986 and can plot functions, data, and fitted models. Its plotting engine can also be used by third party applications to generate publication-quality figures in a variety of formats.

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GNUPLOT

 It's a command line driven plotting program


 It can plot 2D, 3D plots of functions, data and
data fit
 It's plotting engine can be used by third party
applications
 Completely open source and under active
development since 1986
GNUPLOT Features
 Plotting engine can be used from various programming
languages and by third party applications
 Supports piping
 Can be used interactively and well as in batch mode
using scripts
 Can produce output directly on screen or in many
standard graphics file format
 Capable of producing LATEX code that can be used
directly in LATEX documents
Plotting
 plot [ initial x : final x ] function(x)
Plots function(x) with x ranging from initial x till final
x
 set xlabel “label”
set ylabel “label”
set title “title”
 set xrange [ intial : final ]
set yrange [ initial : final ]
Plotting
 plot “data-file” using column#1:column#2, “data-file”
using column#1:column#3
plots the data-file using column#1 as x-axis and column#2,
column#3 as y-axis
 plot function(x) with lines/points/steps/impulses
 replot
Re-plots the graph
 help command
Fitting
 plot “data-file” using 1:2:3 with yerrorbars
 f(x)=function(x;a,b,c....)
where, a,b,c... are parameters
 fit f(x) “data-file” using 1:2:3 via a,b,c...
 p f(x), “data-file” using 1:2:3 w yerr
Postscript Output
 set term postscript eps enhanced color
set output “output-filename”
plot …............
Load / Save File
 save “filename”
 load “filename”
Parametric Plot
 set parametric
 set trange [ intial : final ]
 y(t)=y_function(t)
x(t)=x_function(t)
plot x(t),y(t)
Polar Plot
 set polar
set angle degrees/radians
plot f(t)
3D Plot
 splot f(x,y)
 set isosample #x,#y
sets the x and y coordinate sampling mesh density
 set ticslevel 0
sets the zero of z-axis in x-y plane
 set view rot_x, rot_z, scale, scale_z
sets the viewing angle
 set hidden3d
sets the mesh opaque
3D Plot
 set pm3d
draws colour mapped 3D plot
 set palette defined (-3 “blue”, 0 “white”, 1
“red”)
splot … with pm3d
assigns colour to numerical values and plots
accordingly with colour gradient
3D data plotting
 splot “data-file” using
column#1:column#2:column#3 with lines
 set dgrid3d x_mesh, y_mesh
generates 3D grid graph from data
Definition of Function
 Say f(x) = fa(x) when x conditional a
= fb(x) otherwise
f(x) = (x conditional a) ? fa(x) : fb(x)
 If f(xa) is related to f( xb(xa) ) by a recursive
relation
f(xa) = g( f( xb(xa) ) )
Then the function can be defined recursively in
gnuplot. The recursive definition loop maybe
terminated using conditional statements
Example of Recursive Function
 N! = N * (N-1)!
fac(x) = x*fac(x-1)
this is an infinite loop
 To terminate the loop when n=0
fac(x) = (x==0) ? 1 : x*fac(x-1)
when n=0, fac(n)'s value is given by 1 ie, the function
immediately succeding '?', otherwise n*fac(n-1) is
evaluated
 Since 'n' is integer
fac(x) = (int(x)==0)) ? 1.0 : int(x)*fac( int(x)-1.0 )

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