Re: [Gnuplot-info] Representing large 2D matrix as colormapped pm3d map

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Nicholas Kinar wrote:

> I would like to create a dataset which is represented in an ASCII file 
> as a large 2D matrix.  The matrix has hundreds of columns and thousands 
> of rows.  I expect that the file will take up at least a few gigabytes 
> of space.
> 
> Is there a way to represent this matrix as a pm3d map without having to 
> let gnuplot load all of the data?

No.  You'll have to reduce that dataset to a manageable size outside 
gnuplot.  gnuplot is a plotting program, not a general-purpose data 
processing engine.