Questions on creating visualizations from functions or data using high-level constructors such as Plot, ListPlot, Histogram, etc.
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3D visualization of 4D object data
I have some paired data here {{x1,y1},...{x_n,y_n}} which represents {frequency, amplitude} of a spatial object surface mesh. Its quite a lot of cells and data as you can see in the histogramms, x ...
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Plot 3D set (or a domain of three-variable function)
is there any way to plot a "3D set" of points subject to certain rules? For example, my task is to find maximum of some function of three variables which have to meet some conditions. Of course I ...
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Setting OperatorSubstitution to False has issues with PDF and EPS exports. Are these bugs?
In Plot, I would like to use my own font, eg Inconsolata, for operators such as ×, so I set OperatorSubstitution to ...
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How can I say that all quantities need to be positive (and real)?
Can you say at the beginning of a script in mathematica that you want all the quantities to be positive (and real)? So that in all calculations, only the real values of these quantities will be ...
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How to make the plot from geotiff format
I have a "GeoTIFF" format map, and I have imported it into Mathematica, then I used the Graphics to plot a point on the map. ...
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The plot of roots of polynomials
I have polynomial equation like Tribonacci Polynomials for example: $T_3(x)=x^4+x$.
After finding the roots of this polynomial, I want to show these roots in the complex plane.
I have tried lots of ...
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Combine absolute and relative (scaled) coordinates
I am using Inset to add an Epilog to a plot. The position of the images (in my case: framed numbers) can be specified as an ...
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Manipulate a Plot that contains a variable that contains symbol
This snippet
mm = m
Manipulate[{mm, Plot[mm x, {x, 0, 1}]}, {m, 0, 1}]
(m is not defined anywhere) produces a sadly fixed ...
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How to draw a contour diagram in Mathematica?
This answer at Math.SE contains a neat contour diagram created using Mathematica:
What Mathematica functions I can use to draw diagrams like this?
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Manipulating plot of random iterated function system fractal
I'm generating the Sierpinski Gasket by implementing a chaos game in mathematica. What I'd like to do is create an interactive manipulation with a slider, whereby moving it forward, plots all the ...
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1answer
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Weird vertical line when trying to plot a histogram [duplicate]
I'm trying to plot a histogram of a few data points and overlay a plot on it (it's a fit of a geometric distribution to my data). The weird thing is that a vertical line appears always next to the ...
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Problem with extracting specific contour from a ContourPlot
I am trying to exctract contours of specific value (2.6*10^-6) out of a ContourPlot and measure their area.
Below you can see the code. It is noticable that not all of the relevant contours showed in ...
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Creating a simulation of our Solar System
As the title says, my objective is to create a simulation of the motion of the planets in our Solar System using Mathematica. All the theoretical background regarding the equations of motion of ...
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How to find an asymptote of a logarithmic curve
An exponential decay curve has been plotted asymptoting at approximately x=30 (correct for what I am looking at)
How can I find the exact value from the curve? I was hoping to be able to use ...
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1answer
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Problems with RootLocusPlot
I am having some trouble to understand how the RootLocusPlot works (options, drawing and etc.)
Here is an example
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1answer
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Problem with the Plot of Functions and PlotLegends
For some odd reason the PlotLegends output is not as expected.
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Getting a list of accurate coordinates from a plot
I have encountered this problem of getting a list of accurate coordinates from a plot. Upon searching online, the best method of doing so is to right-click on the plot and select "Get Coordinates". ...
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Does resizing plots produce new data? [duplicate]
What I do:
ListPlot,
Select the plot area,
A tooltip says: Double-click to edit,
Double-click the line or a point on the line,
Take a handle to resize the red ...
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Evaluation in Manipulate [duplicate]
I have an expression assigned to a variable. For example:
exp1 = a*x+b
Now I would like to plot it using something like this
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Visualizing vector-spherical waves
This is a follow-up question to this one on visualizing vector-spherical harmonics. This time, I would like to visualize the vector spherical waves (including the radial dependence). The functions ...
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How can I convert a plot to pdf or eps without errors?
Mathematica 9.0.1, Linux. I try to save a plot as a pdf. I tried four different options. In each case some errors appeared as blank space
( http://yadi.sk/d/h1koyDci4z3rc ). I also tried to save ...
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What is wrong with this Cobweb plot [closed]
Something is wrong with my cobweb plot code but I couldn't figure out where do the mistakes come from.
So basically we have the iterative map $x_n == x_{n-1}^{2} - 3 \mu$. I would like to draw a ...
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Sharp background image in plot
How do I get rid of blurry transitions between pixels of the background image below. It's the fault of Texture[], previously discussed in this answer.
I haven't ...
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How to create a 3D curved surface, given some discrete points in space?
I have some 3D point data and I want to create a curved surface with these points, and export the curved surface data (point coordinates) according to points density on the curved surface. How can I ...
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Extracting points data from a 3D curve surface?
I have a 3D data sets, and I have used it to create a 3D plot, but some of the data points are errors and need to be removed. How I can I remove the bad points from the plot?
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Adding custom GridLines to the “automatic” ones
I need to add custom (vertical) grid lines to a plot (to a DateListPlot, to be precise). I know there is the option of ...
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Discrete 3D Plot with date on one axis
1) How do I plot the following data in 3D (large data, only a part of it is used here):
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Plot data from txt file?
I have data in file.txt which can be expressed by 20000x11 matrix. I do not want to import all of these data. How can I plot graph of the column 1 & column 4?
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Distribution above pointplot
This is my first question here, so I'm sorry if I do something wrong.
Also I'm fairly new to Mathematica (using 8). I've used it about 2 months. Only 2 weeks intensive. The rest was about ...
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Strange 3D plot behavior
Two Part Question
Part 1: As you can see from the data and plot below, the plot does not accurately display the data sets but adds lines beyond and in different dimensions. Both u and v datasets are ...
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Constrain plot points to below a certain line
I have a set of curves that take on large values when approaching 1. I'm trying to create a straight line with certain slope and then truncate the plot for any curve that goes above that line for any ...
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Graphics3D: the box vertices do not coincide with triangle
I have drawn a triangle using Line graphics primitive and Graphics3D function:
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Plot cubic root which includes the negative graph [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Finding real roots of negative numbers (for example, $\sqrt\[3\]{-8}$)
Yes, I know there are other Threads which have similar questions and yes I read them but I am just ...
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Visualize Plot of a function of 3 Variables using color and contours
I would like to plot a function of three variables, say for example:
$$f(x,y,z) = x^2+y^3+z^4$$
over $[-1, +1]$. I want my plot to use colors and maybe contours to make this visualization possible ...
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How to tell Mathematica to use Real Only Mode [duplicate]
How do I tell Mathematica to use real only mode. For example if I want to graph $(x-1)^{1/3}$ for $-3<x<3$, I need to use Real Only mode to get the right graph.
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Plotting points and functions in one graphic
I have this plot:
Plot[{0 x, -x, x, -Sqrt[2 - x^2], Sqrt[2 - x^2]}, {x, -3, 3},
PlotStyle -> {Purple}]
Now I want to do the following. I want to plot the ...
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List Plot 3D the same colour scale
I have a transient problem of pressure disipation. I want to plot severals 3D plot but I have a problem with colours.
Case:
One of my ListPlot3D presents pressure ...
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Concerning ShowLegend in Mathematica
I found a code for Mie Scattering from 2007, written for Mathematica.
I have edited it quite a bit, since there are package definitions that we don't need, etc.
But I am having difficulties ...
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How to plot filling under a curve?
I want to mark critical areas for statistical test on the plot. How can I do this? This:
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DAE - varying initial conditions
I want to solve a DAE-system and I want to vary more than one initial conditions and to manipulate them. I looked here:
Putting NDSolve into ParametricPlot
But it does not work:
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draw a graph of a polynomial function with variables in the denominator [closed]
I have an equation f(u,z1,z2)=0, which is a long and complicated polynomial function with u in denominator.
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Reversing the ColorScheme used in an ArrayPlot and setting the font size in the color bar
I have a matrix of data that I am plotting via ArrayPlot.
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How can I fill under a function in a plot just to right of a specified vertical line?
How do I plot a normal curve with filling under the curve and to the right of a vertical line. I would prefer that the vertical line starts at the x-axis and stops at the plotted curve.
Basically ...
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Scaling the x-axis in ListLogLogPlot[] or ListLogPlot[] in lieu of DataRange
I will present my existing workaround but I am wondering if there is a better solution that takes less time (my solution seems to ~double the time it takes to produce the desired plot). Using ...
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Simple problem with Manipulate and Plot
Would anyone have an idea why the following doesn't work:
rule = {z -> x^2 + 2 x + y};
Manipulate[
Plot[z /. rule, {x, 0, 10}],
{{y, 2, "y"}, 1, 5}
]
But ...
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Exporting plots
I want to export a plot which includes curve fitted to a multiple data set.
shortly ( I use autolegend function Here )
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How do I place a graphical marker (box, circle, …) in a MatrixPlot?
I'm trying to locate minima / maxima in matrices on a heat map. So I have my 2D matrix and did a MatrixPlot,
and I can find the position of the smallest value.
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Visualizing a Complex Vector Field near Poles
I've been playing around with a visualization technique for complex functions where one views the function $f: \mathbb{C} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ as the vector field $f: \mathbb{R^2} \rightarrow ...
