Re: [Gnuplot-info] Frequency of Points with Linespoints Option

[Ethan A M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Monday, 09 September 2013, Matthew Clay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First, I saw a related post about my question from the late 90's, and
> couldn't find anything else...so I figured I'd email the mailing list.
> The problem is pretty simple: I have line plots with 10000's of data
> points, so differentiating between multiple data sets on a single plot
> is very difficult with setting the linetype (they all pretty much look
> like solid lines). Instead, I'd like to use linespoints with symbols
> popping up at a reasonable frequency. Anybody know how to do this?

Current gnuplot (version 4.6) allows you to attach a "pointinterval"
property, "pi" for short.
See for example the second plot in 
  http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/dashcolor.html


	Ethan


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