Re: [Gnuplot-info] 2D cross-section of 3D plot - possible?

[Paweł R. <go...@gm...>]

2010/5/26 Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:
> Paweł Rumian wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering if it is possible to make a 3D plot of this data by
>> limiting the range of 4th data column?
>
> No.  gnuplot doesn't contain an isosurface or isovolume extraction engine.
>  We only have an isocurve extractor, i.e. the implementation of 'set
> contours'.
>
>> A simpler but essentially the same problem is to make a 2D plot from
>> 3D data - eg. to plot v(z) for a specified value of y.
>
> That is something 'set contour' can do for you.
>

Thanks a lot!

Paweł