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[Gnuplot-info] Histogram shadows

[Gerhard G. <gap...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm  trying to create nice looking benchmarks with gnuplot which works quite 
well so far. See attachment.

What is still is missing is histogram shadows.
I've seen several examples in the internet which draw curve shadows by simple 
drawing the curve two times with a slight offset.

Is there a trick like this for histograms?

regards,
Gerhard

Re: [Gnuplot-info] Histogram shadows

[Theo <th...@gm...>]

Hi Gerhard,

one simple way to do it:
Plot the data twice, slightly shifted and in grey.

set boxwidth 0.8 relative
xshift = 0.1    # or some other value
yshift = 0.1

plot 'Data.txt' using ($1+xshift):($2-yshift) with boxes fs solid 0.25 
lt "grey", '' using ($1):($2) with boxes fs solid

You also could create a 3D-Plot to create a shadow-like appearance. 
However, if you can plot data in 2D there is no need to plot it in 3D.

Theo.