Re: Three small bugs with splot

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:51:49 -0800
sfeam <sf...@us...> wrote:

> On Sunday, 25 January 2015 07:57:39 PM Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > 
> > 1) The inline nohidden3d seems to have no effect
> > 
> > 	set isosamples 30; set hidden3d
> > 	splot exp(-(x**2+y**2)), 0.5 nohidden3d
> > 
> > The plane should be transparent; it isn't.
> 
> The documentation says:
> 
>   As of gnuplot version 4.6, hidden3d also affects 3D plotting styles
> `points`, `labels`, `vectors`, and `impulses` even if no surface is
> present in the graph. Unobscured portions of each vector are drawn as
> line segments (no arrowheads). Individual plots within the graph may
> be explicitly excluded from this processing by appending the extra
> option `nohidden3d` to the `with` specifier.
> 
> This may be insufficiently explicit, but the intended meaning is that
> the plot styles {points|labels|vectors|impulses} are now subject to
> hidden3d by default but can be exempted using the "nohidden3d"
> keyword. This keyword does not affect plot styles other than these
> four, and in particular it makes no sense to try to exclude actual
> surfaces from the surface processing.

Ok, that was indeed not clear to me. 
Might be worth restating in the doc that
inline "nohidden3d" only applies to those 
styles.