Questions on creating visualizations from functions or data using high-level constructors such as Plot, ListPlot, Histogram, etc.
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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 ...
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1answer
302 views
PieChart with radial coloring/color function
I am trying to visually compare multiple functions that depend on a single argument running from 0 to 1. They describe a radial property and so I thought it would be nice to use a kind of PieChart ...
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2answers
228 views
Align Array Plots
I have two ArrayPlots that I would like to align but my "tweaking" failed yet. I would like each "row" to be aligned.
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4answers
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Plotting a simple relationship with Plot[] results in empty graph
I've moved this question over from StackExchange to get better visibility (and deleted the old question).
I have a user-defined relationship I'd like to plot:
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5
votes
1answer
422 views
CustomTicks and small ranges
UPDATE
While the self-posted answer below (TickLabelStyle->TraditionalForm) works for most things, it also has the following effect: Integers are given periods ...
3
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2answers
376 views
GridLines in LogPlot or LogLogPlot
Suppose I have a plot like
LogLogPlot[2 x^5/3, {x,0.1,10}, GridLines->Automatic]
How can I achieve to get "custom" gridlines to reduce the number of ...
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2answers
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Aligning plot axes in a graphics object
I need to align the y-axes in the plots below. I think I'm going to have to do some rasterizing and searching for vertical lines, then vary x and ...
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2answers
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Plot legend inside a Show [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using PlotLegends with Show messes up the graphics
I have created a composite plot function:
I want to add a legend to it, but ...
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4answers
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Creating legends for plots with multiple lines?
So I have a graph with multiple lists, for e.g.
data = {{1,2}, {3,4}, {3,5}, {2,3} . . .}
If I then do ...
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3answers
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Computing and plotting a spectrogram in Mathematica
How can I compute and plot the spectrogram of a signal/time series/data in Mathematica? I have a WAV file, sampled at 44100 samples/second and I want to generate a spectrogram of that data. Something ...
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4answers
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Printing exported PDF graphics fails (version 8)
When I export even simple graphics, say, a DateListPlot to PDF under Windows, it refuses to print on any of the printers at work.
Acrobat (Reader X) throws three ...
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3answers
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5answers
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Fixing quirky typesetting in plot labels
Consider this example plot.
Plot[
1-Exp[-x],
{x,0,3},
AxesLabel->{"thickness (\[Mu]m)","power density (W/m^2)"}
]
Let us hold the typographical quality ...
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2answers
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Plotting contours of a function for different values of a parameter
I want to draw a picture of $(x-t)^2 + (y-t^2)^2 - t^2$ in $xy$ plane, with different values of $t$. I did it in a very silly way , namely,
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6
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1answer
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Color linear interpolation of ParametricPlot3D
I am looking for any ideas about how to colorize an ellipsoid with a custom gradient style or by a Blend function. I would like to colorize ellipsoid as follows:
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4answers
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How to change the axes' origin and direction?
I have manipulated an image and want to ListPlot it. However, the result is not to my liking because the conventions for drawing images and plots are different. ...
11
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3answers
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ListLogLinearPlot logarithmic axis tickmarks
When using ListLogLinearPlot the abscissa labels every other decade.
Is there a way to tell Mathematica to label each decade?
I need to use this inside ...
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4answers
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How do I draw a DensityPlot in polar coordinates?
I am trying to plot $J_m(\chi_{mn} r) \cos(m\phi),$ where $J_m(\chi_{mn}) =0,$ as a DensityPlot in polar coordinates (solution to 2D wave equation in polar ...
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4answers
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Can 2D and 3D plots be combined so that the 2D plot is the bottom surface of the 3D plot boundary?
I have a ListlinePlot function, that I would like to combine with both a Graphics3D plot and a ...
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votes
1answer
511 views
When using GraphPlot with an adjacency matrix, how can I make Mathematica draw exactly one self loop for any non-zero weight?
I have tried using the option MultiedgeStyle->None, but apparently Mathematica doesn't treat self loops in the same way it treats edges. For example, I find
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4answers
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How to make a 3D globe?
There are many ways to create a 3D Earth that is rotatable (see here, here, related here), but most of them have some drawbacks. These issues mainly stem from either ...
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4answers
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How do I get rid of the overlap of gridlines and tick mark labels?
I wish to include the plot generated by the following Mathematica code
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2answers
383 views
Interactively extract points from a plot (ListPlot or SmoothDensityHistogram)
Is there a way to dynamically define a polygon on a plot (I'm working with ListPlot and SmoothDensityHistogram) to select a ...
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6answers
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How to add a vertical line to a plot
In the plot below I would like to add two vertical lines at $x = \frac{\pi}{15} \pm \frac{1}{20}$.
How can I do that?
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5answers
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Using PlotLegends with Show messes up the graphics
I have already obtained the plot that I want but am having trouble legending the graph correctly.
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4answers
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Calling Correct Function for Plotting DiracDelta
I am wondering what is the correct function in Mathematica to plot the true impulse function, better known as the DiracDelta[] function. When using this inside of a ...
6
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4answers
625 views
SIGSEGV error with 3D Plots
I originally asked this question here but didn't get a satisfactory answer.
I am using Mathematica 8.0.1.0 on Ubuntu 11.10. I created a 3D plot
from an ...
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votes
4answers
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Plotting Complex Quantity Functions
Trying to plot with complex quantities seems not to work properly in what I want to accomplish. I would like to know if there is a general rule/way of plotting when you have complex counterparts in ...
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3answers
609 views
Number format of axes in a plot
How can I have a conditional format of the values appearing in the axis of a plot ?
I have in mind the number format options available in Excel for plots as described here ...
10
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1answer
3k views
Formatting legend text font
I am using this code to plot a graph, and I am trying to make the font of the legend bigger.
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1answer
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1answer
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Easy Way to Create Trellis Plots in Mathematica
I'm trying to do multivariate statistical analysis on a data set and I'd like to quickly visualize my information first using Trellis-like plots. For example, I'd like to create scatterplots for body ...
6
votes
3answers
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Plotting the open ball for the post office metric space
The post office metric space, $P$ has the distance function defined as follows:
$$
d_P (\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}) := \begin{cases}
0 & \mathbf{x} = \mathbf{y}\\
\Vert \mathbf{x}\Vert_2+\Vert ...
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votes
3answers
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2answers
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Using a function name instead of its definition in AxesLabel
I seek to use a token as an axis label, but this token, having other meanings, is expanded by Mathematica. If I enclose the token in quotes, it is not expanded, but it is also no longer italicized. ...
3
votes
2answers
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Non-linear inequalities
I have five sets of inequalities and equations:
$$A_1:=\{(b,c);b^2+9c^2-3c<0\},$$
$$A_2:=\{(b,c);\frac{\sqrt{b^2+9c^2-3c}-b+6c}{c}\leq0, \frac{-\sqrt{b^2+9c^2-3c}-b+6c}{c}\leq0\},$$
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1answer
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Changing the plot variable inside Plot [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Difference in Plot when using Evaluate vs when not using Evaluate
Assume one has vector of functions (e.g., vec={x,x^2}).
The ...
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3answers
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Consistent Plot Styles across multiple MMA files and data sets
I am starting to write a thesis for which I want to use MMA for all my plotting needs, mostly because a lot of the basic analysis has been done there. To ensure that I am applying styles consistently ...
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2answers
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How to save plots in grayscale
As sophomoric as this question seems, how should I save plots in grayscale in Mathematica?
I generally like eps images for their scalability and I use ghostscript or other third party perl scripts ...
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3answers
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Retrieving PlotRange form BarChart
Consider the following data:
data1={73.9377, 54.4122, 53.0826, 24.1936};
data2={76.828, 49.1673, 45.7883, 18.9015};
I defined my own BarChart as follows:
...
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4answers
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Saner alternative to ContourPlot fill
I am producing a large number of ContourPlot objects, which when exported generate notoriously large PDF files because it basically generates lots of little ...
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2answers
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Ad hoc graphics primitives-like objects
Sphere is one of the three-dimensional graphics primitives available in Mathematica and can be easily used to created very useful images. For instance, in the ...
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2answers
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RegionPlot3D contour problem
I have a little problem and didn't succeed trying to solve it on my own.
Situation is, I need a visualization of the function $s - 3\cdot s\cdot q + q$ as a region on p == 0 if function's value is ...
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1answer
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How to draw a gene regulatory state space diagram in Mathematica
Is it possible to draw in Mathematica a state space diagrams like these two?!
I tried a lot but since I am fairly new to Mathematica, I could not reproduce the desired result.
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How can I make a 2D line plot with a drop shadow under the line?
You often see plots styled like this (ignore the bar chart component):
i.e. with a small drop shadow under the line. (I'm assuming Excel is being used to produce these plots).
How could you make ...
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5answers
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Extruding along a path
I'm trying to render a 3D image of a path by extruding a circular cross-section along the path, creating a "snake-like" path.
Here is an image I found to illustrate:
I can't seem to figure out if ...
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4answers
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subscripts in plot axis labels
Superscripts can be included in axis labels by the use of the caret symbol (e.g., Plot[x^2, {x, -1, 1}, AxesLabel -> {x, x^2}]).
How does one include subscripts ...
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2answers
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ParametricPlot3D creates a blank graphic in this case
I have been trying to evaluate the following code, but nothing happened. I don't see any result.
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2answers
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How to show values of points on surface plotted with ContourPlot3D
The help for ContourPlot3D starts with this example
ContourPlot3D[x^3 + y^2 - z^2 == 0, {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2}, {z, -2, 2}]
This returns a Plots of the surface ...
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8answers
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Can I make a plot with gradient filling?
Bloomberg has a standard plot style for its line plots in which it uses a gradient filling. Actually the way this seems to be constructed is that a gradient from the ymax to ymin is used as the ...
