Re: [Gnuplot-info] Surface plot from data files

[Thomas S. <t.s...@fz...>]

you may set
gnuplot_binary ("tee logfilename | gnuplot")
at the octave prompt to see which commands are sent to gnuplot.


drgz wrote:
> 
> Yup, I found those help commands later on last night, but I still get
> plots that look much "uglier" than the ones from the surf(). Maybe it
> would be better I found out what commands octave calls in Gnuplot when the
> surf() function is called, but when i open surf.m / surface.m I can't find
> any useful information.
> 
> 
> Basically I would like to know how to get the same plot as in th the
> example PDF, but from scratch in Gnuplot, such that I easily can change
> whatever I want to change.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> drgz
> 
> 
> Tatsuro MATSUOKA-5 wrote:
>> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> Sorry for separated posts.
>> 
>> Please also read 'help splot grid_data'
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Tatsuro
>> 
>> --- Tatsuro MATSUOKA  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello
>>> 
>>> Please read first carefully output of the 'help splot datafile'.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Tatsuro
>>> --- drgz wrote:
>>> 
>>> > 
>>> > Hello,
>>> > 
>>> > I'm trying to make a surface plot using data I've exported from
>>> Octave. I
>>> > found it to be easier to edit the labels etc with Gnuplot when I did
>>> my 2D
>>> > plots, so I want to do the same with the 3D plots, but I simply don't
>>> get
>>> > how to organize the data such that the plot becomes the same as when
>>> using
>>> > surf() in Octave.
>>> > 
>>> > Example;
>>> > 
>>> > I got two vectors and a matrix I want to plot:
>>> > 
>>> > size(freqvec) = 101 x 1
>>> > size(pinvec) = 26 x 1
>>> > size(s22vec) = 101 x 26
>>> > 
>>> > Should I save these to three separate data files, or should I save
>>> them all
>>> > to the same file? And how is the syntax for linking them together in
>>> > Gnuplot?
>>> > 
>>> > I've tried both saving them to different files, and to the same file,
>>> but I
>>> > simply don't manage to get it right.
>>> > 
>>> > When using Octave, I get the plot as in the attached file, which is
>>> nice,
>>> > but as I want to tweak a little on the figure I thought it might be
>>> easier
>>> > doing it from Gnuplot directly.
>>> > 
>>> > So can anyone point me in the right direction, or know somewhere I can
>>> read
>>> > about how to get the plot right?
>>> > 
>>> > Best regards,
>>> > 
>>> > drgz
>>> > 
>>> > http://www.nabble.com/file/p25869511/test.pdf test.pdf 
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