Re: [Kmatplot-general] ascii data format

[Kamil <kam...@po...>]

On Wed 30. May 2001 00:12, you wrote:
> I use some visualization tools like matlab or tecplot one various sytems.
> Though on my linux PC I don't have any of these available and kmatplot
> might be a good alternative in some cases except that kmatplot uses a ascii
> data format which most of my programs (c, fortran) can not write. Most of
> these programs write data in columns where each column represents a
> variable.
>
> e.g.:
>
> x  y  u    v
> 1  1  3.2  1.1
> 1  2  3.1  4.3
> 1  3  1    3
> 2  1  3    7
> 2  2  7    4
> 2  3  5    7
> 3  1  4    5
> 3  2  3    5
> 3  3  2    3
>
> Is there any option to read in ascii data this format?
>
> Since many of my data analysis programs write data this way (optionally
> using some header information about the exact format) it would be a nice
> feature...for me.
>
> What is the idea behind the current "#name: ...." format? Is it Octave
> stuff?
>
Yes it's Octave-like format:

#name: x
1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 
#name: y
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3

And I'm afraid there is no option for easy importing such 
data into KMatplot, you can use Octave to convert this format and load it 
into Kmatplot. Currently data management is very straightforward - I plan to 
add something like a global list of matrices ( worksheets ), so any plot can 
refer to any range in the any global matrix. But writing the second tecplot 
will take time surely, now I'm adding pixmap export and next in queue is 
adding scatter 3D plots, so it is the third option, so stay tuned.

Kamil