Questions tagged [plotting]
Questions on creating visualizations from functions or data using high-level constructors such as Plot, ListPlot, Histogram, etc.
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xkcd-style Plots
I received an email to which I wanted to respond with a xkcd-style graph, but I couldn't manage it. Everything I drew looked perfect, and I don't have enough command over ...
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How do I draw a pair of buttocks?
I'm trying to develop a function which 3D plot would have a buttocks like shape.
Several days of searching the web and a dozen my of own attempts to solve the issue have brought nothing but two ...
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1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis
I would like to plot those two datasets on top of each other. But they have very different range on the $y$ axis. How can I have two different axis?
I found the following on the help menu but quite ...
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How to manipulate 2D plots?
When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details ...
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Plot draws list of curves in same color when not using Evaluate
This example comes from
the Mathematica documentation for Plot
under Basic Examples.
Can someone please explain why these are each plotted as a different color in ...
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Is it possible to define a new PlotTheme?
In version 10 one can define, say,
$PlotTheme = "Scientific"
Which changes the appearance of all plots. This is fantastic because on the one hand I can have nice ...
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What are the standard colors for plots in Mathematica 10? [duplicate]
Mathematica 10 release appears to have changed the default styling of plots: the most visible changes are thicker lines and different default colors.
Thus, answers to this stackoverflow question are ...
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How can I generate this "domain coloring" plot?
I found this plot on Wikipedia:
Domain coloring of $\sin(z)$ over $(-\pi,\pi)$ on $x$ and $y$ axes. Brightness indicates absolute magnitude, saturation represents imaginary and real magnitude.
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Placing a ContourPlot under a Plot3D
I would like to combine a 3-dimensional graph of a function with its 2-dimensional contour-plot underneath it in a professional way. But I have no idea how to start.
I have a three of these I would ...
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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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Plotting implicitly-defined space curves
It is known that space curves can either be defined parametrically,
$$\begin{align*}x&=f(t)\\y&=g(t)\\z&=h(t)\end{align*}$$
or as the intersection of two surfaces,
$$\begin{align*}F(x,y,...
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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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How can we make publication-quality PlotMarkers without version 10?
Suppose that for certain reasons we are not yet using Mathematica version 10, or we have a version with buggy PlotMarkers. It is well known that the default markers ...
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Python-style plots in Mathematica
I love making plots in Mathematica. And I love to spend a lot of time making high-quality plots that maximize readability and aesthetics. For most cases, Mathematica can make very beautiful images, ...
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Sketch-type graphics with transparency and dashed hidden lines?
I'd like to create transparent graphs like the following from P1095, Calculus 6th Ed, by James Stewart. Can Mathematica accomplish this? By "transparent," I mean the ability to see the interior, ...
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ListPlot: Plotting large data fast
Mathematica produces fantastic-looking graphics, but it can be slow on large data sets. Here is an example for a (random) time series:
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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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How to plot Venn diagrams with Mathematica?
How does one plot Venn diagrams with Mathematica? I've searched quite a bit and I've found one source at MathWorld which provides the source code for doing them.
But I don't understand this code, can ...
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How to make this beautiful animation
How to make an animation of following gif in Mathematica?
Edit: The animation shown above was created by Charlie Deck in processing.
And how to make 3D analog?
I tried first few steps
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Labeling individual curves in Mathematica
I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I've read and my personal experience,...
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How do I plot coordinates (latitude and longitude pairs) on a geographic map?
I'm attempting for the first time to create a map within Mathematica. In particular, I would like to take an output of points and plot them according to their lat/long values over a geographic map. I ...
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Mathematica2tikz an equivalent function
Matlab2tikz is a script which generates native LaTeX/TikZ figures from MATLAB.
I am looking for an equivalent method/function in Mathematica. Obviously the final script may need some manual tinkering ...
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Do I have to code each case of this Grid full of plots separately?
I have written some custom functions to draw multi-panel graphs like this one:
It's done by passing a matrix of (custom) plotting functions to a MultiPanelGraph ...
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Vary the thickness of a plotted function
I know, that I can change the color of a function with the help of PlotStyle:
Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 3 Pi}, PlotStyle -> {Green, Thickness[0.01]}]
I also know, ...
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Generating a broken or snipped axis in ListPlot
I have two data sets, data1 and data2. For example:
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How to plot ternary density plots?
How can I get a ternary density plot just like the plots from OriginLab?
ContourPlot and DensityPlot seemingly can accept the <...
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Density plot on the surface of sphere
I would like to make density plots of a list of (size 2 or 3) spherical harmonics on the surface of a sphere. I'd like to plot it so that each element of that list is using a different color (red ...
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How to visualize 3D fit
I have a data set of x,y,z values and I fit a function of x,y to the data. This works, but I can't come up with a nice way to ...
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High-quality RegionPlot3D for logical combinations of predicates
Unlike RegionPlot, RegionPlot3D copes poorly with logical combinations of predicates (...
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About multi-root search in Mathematica for transcendental equations
I have some questions for multiroot search for transcendental equations. Is there any clever solution to find all the roots for a transcendental equation in a specific range?
Perhaps ...
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Why are my plots displaying behind the axes?
I need to create graphs with light gray axes and black lines. All of my plots display behind the axes. How can I make the plots display over the axes?
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How to change plot style or other options after it was created
For example:
p = Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 1}]
Is it possible to write options in Show to change the curve's color for example into ...
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Implementing hexagon binning in mathematica
Hexagon bin plots are a useful way of visualising large datasets of bivariate data. Here are a few examples:
With bin frequency indicated by grey level...
..and by glyph size
There are packages for ...
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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, to create a "snake-like" path.
Here is an image I found to illustrate:
I can't seem to figure out if ...
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How can the behavior of InterpolationOrder->0 be controlled?
In ListPlot and Interpolation, the option InterpolationOrder->0 uses two different ...
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How to plot contours on the faces of a cube
I'm trying to plot contours of a function f[x,y,z] on the faces of a cube as the example below, which represents the domain of this function.
Is there a way to do ...
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How does one set a logarithmic scale in a ContourPlot?
How does one set a logarithmic scale for both x and y axes in ContourPlot in Mathematica?
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What are the possible ways of visualizing a 4D function in Mathematica?
I have a function $F$ that maps the xyz space to a set of reals, more clearly:
$c = F[x,y,z]$
Where $c$,$x$,$y$ and $z$ are reals.
What are the possible ways of visualizing this 3d function in ...
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ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar
I would like to generate a ListPlot with the color for each point in the plot corresponding to a particular value (not associated with the position in the plot). I'...
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How to change the default ColorData used in Mathematica's Plot?
This question leads on from the recent question What are the standard colors for plots in Mathematica?
There it was determined that the default color palette used by ...
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How can I save both the plot and the legend together?
In this example, how can I put the legend inside the graph? Currently, when I save the graph, only the graph is saved, not the legend.
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How can I make an X-Y scatter plot with histograms next to the X-Y axes?
I just saw a nice plot there:
How could I implement that in Mathematica — by which I mean the plot structure, not so much the styling.
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Is there something like DensityPlot3D to visualize atomic orbitals?
I'm visualizing some hydrogen like atomic orbitals. For looking at plane slices of the probability density, the DensityPlot function works well, and with something ...
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Plotting a Phase Portrait
I'm trying to plot a phase portrait for the differential equation
$$x'' - (1 - x^2) x' + x = 0.5 \cos(1.1 t)\,.$$
The primes are derivatives with respect to $t$. I've reduced this second order ODE to ...
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Is it possible to speed up ContourPlot on multi-core machines?
It is not very difficult to face a function for which ContourPlot works too slow. And it seems natural that this function can be parallelized well. Anyway, naive <...
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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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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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How to Make a Sankey Diagram
I have two lists
start = {{1},{1},{1},{2},{3},{1}}
end = {{1},{2},{2},{3},{3},{1}}
And I want to create a Sankey diagram. Which looks something like
So, ...
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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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