gnuplot Cookbook电子书

gnuplot Cookbook

Table of Contents

gnuplot Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Why gnuplot?

Why this book?

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Plotting Curves, Boxes, Points, and more

Introduction

Plotting a function

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more…

Plotting multiple curves

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using two different y-axes

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Making a scatterplot

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more…

Plotting boxes

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Plotting circles

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Drawing filled curves

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Handling financial data

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Making a basic histogram plot

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Stacking histograms

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Plotting multiple histograms

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Dealing with errors

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Making a statistical whisker plot

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Making an impulse plot

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Graphing parametric curves

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Plotting with polar coordinates

How to do it…

How it works…

2. Annotating with Labels and Legends

Introduction

Labeling the axes

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Setting the label size

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Adding a legend

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Putting a box around the legend

How to do it…

How it works…

Adding a label with an arrow

How to do it…

How it works…

Using Unicode characters [new]

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Putting equations in your labels

How to do it…

How it works…

3. Applying Colors and Styles

Introduction

Coloring your curves

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Styling your curves

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Applying transparency [new]

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Plotting points with curves

How to do it…

How it works…

Changing the point style

How to do it…

How it works…

Changing the plot size

How to do it…

How it works…

Positioning graphs on the page [new]

How to do it…

How it works…

Plotting with objects [new]

How to do it…

How it works…

4. Controlling your Tics

Introduction

Adding minor tics

How to do it…

How it works…

Placing tics on the second y-axis

How to do it…

How it works…

Adjusting the tic size

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Removing all tics

How to do it…

How it works…

Defining the tic values

How to do it…

How it works…

Making the tics stick out

How to do it…

How it works…

Setting manual tics

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Plotting with dates and times

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Changing the language used for labels [new]

How to do it…

How it works…

Using European-style decimals [new]

How to do it…

How it works…

Formatting tic labels

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more...

5. Combining Multiple Plots

Introduction

Arranging an array of plots

How to do it…

How it works…

Positioning plots manually

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Creating an inset plot

How to do it…

How it works…

Multiplotting with labels and arrows

How to do it…

How it works…

6. Including Plots in Documents

Introduction

Introducing gnuplot's high-quality graphics formats [new]

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

The wxt terminal

The pdfcairo terminal

The svg terminal

Adding a plot to a paper using LaTeX

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating the figure

The TeX document

Running LaTeX

How it works…

Assembling a document using TikZ and LaTeX [new]

Getting ready

How to do it…

Making the plot

The LaTeX document

How it works…

Assembling a document using epslatex

How to do it…

Making the plot

The LaTeX document

Producing the PDF

How it works…

Using gnuplot within LaTeX

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating presentation slides with incrementally displayed graphs

Getting ready

How to do it…

Making the plots

The LaTeX document

How it works…

The gnuplot script

The LaTeX document

Including a plot in a web page

How to do it…

The gnuplot script

The HTML source

How it works…

There's more…

Making an interactive plot for the Web [new]

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

7. Programming gnuplot and Dealing with Data

Introduction

Scripting gnuplot with its own language

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Plotting on subintervals

How to do it…

How it works…

Smoothing your data

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Fitting functions to your data

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using kdensity smoothing to improve on histograms [new]

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…


Creating a cumulative distribution [new]

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Talking to gnuplot with C

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Scripting gnuplot with Python

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Plotting with Clojure

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Handling volatile data [new]

How to do it…

The volatile data source

Handling the data with gnuplot

How it works…

8. The Third Dimension

Introduction

Making a surface plot

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Using coordinate mappings

How to do it…

How it works…

The set mapping command

The ++ pseudofile

Coordinate ranges

Completing the picture

Coloring the surface

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Making a contour plot

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Making a vector plot

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Making an image plot or heat map

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Combining contours and images

How to do it…

How it works…

Combining surfaces with images

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Plotting a path in 3D

How to do it…

How it works…

Drawing parametric surfaces

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

9. Using and Making Graphical User Interfaces

Introduction

Using the Java gnuplot GUI JGP

Getting ready

How to do it…

1. Installing and starting up

2. Doing more with JGP

Using the Emacs GUI

Getting ready

How to do it…

1. Running a gnuplot script

2. Help and menus

Sharing with Plotshare

How to do it…

How it works…

Writing a web GUI for gnuplot

Getting ready

How to do it…

1. The program

2. The auxiliary files

3. Running

How it works…

10. Surveying Special Topics

Introduction

Avoiding overlapping labels

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Plotting labels from files

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Mapping the Earth

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Making a labeled contour plot

How to do it…

How it works…

Softening the axes

How to do it…

How it works…

Putting arrows on the axes

How to do it…

How it works…

Plotting with pictures

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Breaking an axis

How to do it…

How it works…

Setting up the axes

Defining the functions

Setting up the tics

Indicating the break

And finally...

Fitting the grid to the data

How to do it…

How it works…

Coloring the axes

How to do it…

How it works…

A. Finding Help and Information

Index