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#375 Support for broken axes.
Broken axes is a common used feature in many scientific plots.
There are some examples on the web on how to achieve it through manually drawing the axes and modify the data:
- http://gnuplot-surprising.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/broken-axes-graph-in-gnuplot-3.html
- http://gnuplot-tricks.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/broken-axis-revisited.html
But there are many parameters, e.g. the height of the broken indicating arrow, that has to be frequently tuned when plotting different data. It is even more different to tune these parameters when using log scale on axes.
It would be nice if gnuplot can natively support broken axes both on x and y axes for both normal scale and log scale.
I second this request.
For example, it would really be nice to be able to do a thing like
set xrange [0:1-7:10]and have all the magic happens, both with data and functions.Now I have to do all sort of magic (typically using python to create a gnuplot script) to make that happen...
Thanks!
Ye.
Some simple examples can be done manually.
However, when you are using log y axis, the length of manually drawn arrows (representing the break) is really hard to determine.
@leoking --- yes, although my solution in that case is using "screen" coordinates. But it's convoluted, and if you need to break both x and y axes, the thing becomes fastly unmanageable.
Is there any news about this? Would be a great addition for 5.0...
Thanks!
This feature would be useful for me, too. I've read about workarounds for the lack of this feature like http://gnuplot-tricks.blogspot.com/2010/06/broken-axis-once-more.html, but they look very complicated.
Philipp
It is possible to define broken axes in gnuplot 5, see demo here:
http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_5.2/nonlinear1.html
Nevertheless it is still cumbersome. Providing a more automated process with a simple command such as "set broken x [low:high]" is on the TODO list for further development.