Questions on creating visualizations from functions or data using high-level constructors such as Plot, ListPlot, Histogram, etc.
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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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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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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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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 ...
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How to draw some 2D curves in a 3D plot? [duplicate]
I want to plot several 2D curves (Sin[x] at y=0, Cos[x] at ...
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Why ImportString[ExportString[, “PDF”], “PDF”] sometimes gives an extra point
Consider this code:
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rotating 3d text
Is it possible to create a 3d rotating text like this:
animation here.
Here is my try so far:
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LogLinearPlot analog for Plot3D? [duplicate]
Is it possible to make 3D plot in logarithmic coordinates? I need analog LogLinearPlot to plot 3D figure in logarithmic x, or y, or both coordinates.
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Labelling Curves Using ListLogLinearPlot within DynamicModule (So Close)
I currently have a large number of time-series datasets in the form where the name and time-series transposed data, so I have a list of lists of names for datasets and their time-dependant data.
The ...
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How can I make a Plot over a discrete set of domain points?
I want to plot the function $y=2^x$ at the $x$-values given by Table[Prime[n], {n,20}]
How should I write the plot function? Like so?
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Selective inclusion of elements in BarChart Legend
Further to my previous question, is there a concise way - amenable to automated setting in a package so that it can be accessed globally - to eliminate some legend item that would otherwise show? For ...
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Why do Plot and ListPlot use the last PlotStyle when only one thing is plotted?
When a list of PlotStyles is given, ListPlot behaves as expected when there are multiple things to plot:
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How to plot two functions together? [closed]
I have defined two function like f[Rp_] := Sin[0.5 ArcSin[Sqrt[(3 Rp^2)/((2 - Rp)^2 + 3 Rp^2)]]] and ...
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Changing FrameTicks of ListPlot
I am unable to change the frameticks for my list plot.
I am trying to plot a growth rate omega function which looks like this:
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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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Comparing data sets with fade transitions (Code speed-up)
I am using the utility below for data comparison. However, with my real (more complex) charts the processing is quite slow, so setting the Pause time under ...
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How do I implement Dynamic Graphics? [closed]
I'm interested in learning to implement graphics like to those shown here
My pendulum c++ code (source & csv's located here) outputs the positions of each mass into separate csv files.
-== My ...
