Re: various observations (added to list)

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> 
>> Also I think it would neat if you can manage to jam the generation
>> of the samples into the actual plot command so that "replot" will
>> resample rather than simply redrawing the previous sampling.
>> Similar to the plots in rgb_variable.dem. 
> 
> 
> Well, I can.  But I know what Hans will say.  If instead of
> 
>  "temp.dat" with points
> 
> in the splot command, we have
> 
>  "temp.dat" using (invnorm(rand(0))):(invnorm(rand(0))):(-0.2)
> issuing replot will create a new set of outcomes.  In other words, data 
> was put in "temp.dat" for the sole purpose of setting the number of 
> points in the random data set create at the plot command.  The data 
> itself inside "temp.dat" is not used.

Actually, if one does this sort of approach, the generated data could be written in very compact form as:

set format "%0.0f"
set table "temp.dat"
plot 0,0
#plot invnorm(rand(0)),(1.0*scale/nsamp)
unset table
unset format

and every point inside the file looks like:

#Curve 0 of 1, 5000 points
#x y type
0 0  i
0 0  i
...

The data isn't used, but it averages to only a few characters per number, eventually replaced by a random value when read in.  I know, it's a kluge... but I could live with it if others could.

Dan