gnuplot 5

Acknowledgements Special Thanks About the Author Preface About the name Why gnuplot? Installation Linux OS X Windows Some Compilation Notes 2D Plots Plotting a Function Setting Ranges Changing the Linewidth Positioning the Key Defining a Graph Title Titling Individual Curves Grid Lines Linetypes Plotting Multiple Curves Monochrome Creating and Plotting Data Files Using a Second y-axis Multiplot Sampling Frequency The with Command Dashed Lines The set link Command Parametric Plots Controlling Your Borders Front and Back Polar Coordinates Filled Curves Range-frame Graphs Local Ranges Errors and Finance The Data File Column Selection Offsets Calculating with Columns Errorbars var Whisker Plots Financebars Histograms and Bar Charts steps and fsteps histeps Histograms Bar Charts xticlabels The every Command Automatic Titles The newhistogram Command: Grouping Clusters Stacked Bar Charts 3D Box Plots Text and Labels Labeling the Axes More Fun with the Key Labels Anywhere Enhanced Text Coordinate Systems Plotting Labels from Files Hypertext Labels Horizontal Bar Charts Advanced Scripting Functions and Variables The Ternary Operator Basic Iteration The Special Filename + Nested Iteration Iteration Over Words String Formatting Iteration Over Blocks Animations Command Lines are Cool Externally Processed Data Files Invocation Script Arguments Macros Arrays if and else while, break, and continue Controlling gnuplot from Programs Smoothing Fitting Functions to Data Stats 3D Surfaces Wireframe Surfaces with splot The View Hidden Line Removal Styling the Isolines Wireframe Surfaces with Variable Coloring Setting Top and Bottom Styles Solid Surfaces Solid Surfaces with Lines Palettes Palette Definitions Palette Discontinuities Good and Bad Color Palettes Cubehelix Palettes Cubehelix Stripes 3D Data The Special Filename “++” Multiple Surfaces Combining a pm3d with a Mesh Surface Lighting Parametric Plots in 3D: Paths in Space Parametric Plots in 3D: Surfaces Transparent pm3d Surfaces Plot Borders in 3D Coordinate Mapping The Bottom of the Box Grids in 3D Grid Control in 3D Walls 4D Plots Settings for Surfaces Axis Labels in 3D Contour Plots and Heat Maps Heat Maps Contour Plots Custom Contours Labeled Contours Vector Plots Vectors on a Surface Combining Contour Plots and Heat Maps Contours with Surfaces Heat Maps with Surfaces Intersecting Surfaces and Heat Maps Tic Control Minor Tics ...On a Second Axis Adjusting the Tic Size ...Of Minor Tics Removing All The Tics Making the Tics Stick Out Setting Tic Values Setting Tics Manually Combining Automated and Manual Tics Formatting Tics Tics With No Labels Dates and Times The Example File Defining the Input Format Defining the Output Format Internationalization of Dates Geographic Coordinates Gnuplot and LaTeX Simple Graphics Inclusion The tikz Terminal The epslatex Terminal Calling gnuplot from Plot Positioning Arrays of plots Manual plot positioning Inset plots Parallel Axis Plots New Parallel Axis Syntax Spider Plots Objects and Arrows Rectangles Circles A Pie Chart Ellipses Ellipse Units Polygons 3D Polygons Arrows A Better Inset Plot 3D Pixmaps A gnuplot Miscellany 3D Bars Plotting with Pictures Pictures in 3D Plotting with Characters Variable Pointtype The sample Keyword Multiple, Overlapping 2D plots Fence Plots Mapping Arrow Axes Colorsequence Colored Axes Data Dependent Gridding Broken Axis Jitter Scatterplots of Dense Data Sets Attention to Style Voxel Plots Voxel plots Plotting Points in 3D Jitter Creating Coordinate Files Volume Plot from a Voxel Grid Manual Jitter Voxel Plot with Jitter Index of Plots Index