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gnuplot Cookbook

You're reading from  gnuplot Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517249
Pages 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Lee Phillips Lee Phillips
Profile icon Lee Phillips

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

gnuplot Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Plotting Curves, Boxes, Points, and more Annotating with Labels and Legends Applying Colors and Styles Controlling your Tics Combining Multiple Plots Including Plots in Documents Programming gnuplot and Dealing with Data The Third Dimension Using and Making Graphical User Interfaces Surveying Special Topics Finding Help and Information
Index

Arranging an array of plots


The simplest use of the multiplot mode creates a rectangular array of plots with regular spacing. The following figure is an example of this type of multiple plot:

In the previous figure, we have made a table of graphs showing the four kinds of Bessel function that gnuplot has built in.

How to do it…

Run this script through gnuplot to get the array of plots shown in the previous figure:

set multiplot layout 2, 2
plot besj0(x)
plot besj1(x)
plot besy0(x)
plot besy1(x)
unset multiplot

How it works…

The new command is in the first line of the recipe. The commands following that are simple plot statements, until we reach the final line. The initial command puts gnuplot into multiplot mode. If you are working interactively, you will see that the prompt, which is usually gnuplot>, has become multiplot> to remind you that you are in a special mode.

The layout 2, 2 part of the command sets up a regular array of plots with two columns and two rows; of course you can use...

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