Re: Gnuplot logarithmic contours and palette

[Aapo L. <aap...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 19:52 +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> As so often, that depends on the background of the person doing the 
> expecting...
> 
> The right way of handling this would have been to do it like the other
> "tick series" things in gnuplot do it, i.e. like 'set xtics'.  Which 
> means the endpoints are numbers in the input format, but the increment
> is a *factor*, not an addition to the logarithm.

That's cool.  I made a new patch that implements it that way.


> So '5,2,200' should have delivered tics at (5,10,20,40,80,160)

Now the z ticks are exactly like that.  And the patch is even
simpler.  :-)


> Taking into account prior art, it is.  It just fails to be implemented 
> that way ;-(

Ok, thank you.  I don't have very deep knowledge of Gnuplot, so I didn't
realise that.  But now it's fixed, see the attached patch.

Best Regards,
Aapo Lankinen

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