Re: pie sample

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 11:00 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> No objections there...  This Edward Tufte guy looks interesting.  Oh the=
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> guy who talked of that illustration about Nepoleon's march to Moscow.=20
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> http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=3D00018S&topic=
_id=3D1&topic=3DAsk%20E%2eT%2e
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> Near the bottom of the discussion on that link, that last graph of=20
> language use is an interesting method of displaying data.  (Point size=20
> is quantity.)

As I replied to Dan off the list, there is already a patch from Volker Dobl=
er
that implements this style of plot (#624019).

I have updated it to apply against current CVS and extended it to
work for both 2D and 3D plots.

I think that such a plot style is a very nice addition to gnuplot, but
I am not thrilled about creating a whole new "with sizepoints" style
for it.   I would prefer to figure out a way to have it an additional
keyword for any style that already uses points, but as the code=20
stands I don't see a way to do this.

Which is a perfect segu=C3=A9 into another current discussion about
syntax variants for "using".   This one would become something=20
like
	plot <foo> using  1=3Dx:2=3Dy:3=3Dpointsize with points

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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
Biomolecular Structure Center
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University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195