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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How can I plot implicit equations?
If you enter the following into Wolfram | Alpha, you get nice graphs:
graph 4 x^4 + y^2 = 2
How do you do this in Mathmatica? I realize that these are not ...
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Specific initial sample points for 3D plots
PlotPoints lets you determine how many sample points you want in each direction, but sometimes I want specific ones.
For Plot ...
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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 ...
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Marking points of intersection between two curves
I'm trying to illustrate the solutions numerically and graphically for an equation such as Tan[x] == x. I think I did everything ok except I wanted to mark each ...
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How to get StreamPlot to draw many hundreds of streamlines?
For artistic reasons, I want to draw an extremely dense StreamPlot with something like a thousand streamlines. I tried setting ...
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How to examine the structure of Graphics objects
One difficulty I'm encountering in studying the structure of Graphics objects is that I have not yet found a way to print or display such structures that are ...
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Logarithmic scale in a DensityPlot and its legend
I was recently faced with the task of creating a DensityPlot with a logarithmic colour scale, and with providing it with an appropriate legend. Since I could not find any resources to this effect on ...
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How to export transparent raster plots?
Is there an easy way to get transparent plots that work with Save Graphic As using a compatible file format such as GIF or PNG? I tried ...
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How to generate image like QR code with Mathematica
How to generate such form of QR code which displays an image itself but is still scan-able?
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Trying to visualize the Collatz conjecture
I happen to have this collatz
collatz[x_, y_] := If[x == 3*y || x == 2*y + 1 || y == 3*x || y == 2*x + 2, 2, 0]
So i want a visual 3D adjacency graph of my ...
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How to implement the sample-point process like the built-ins of Mathematica?
Consider this:
pts = {{0, 0}, {1, 1}, {2, -1}, {3, 0}, {4, -2}, {5, 1}};
f = BSplineFunction[pts]
I can use ParametricPlot to ...
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How can I plot the direction field for a differential equation?
I'd like to plot the graph of the direction field for a differential equation, to get a feel for it. I'm a novice, right now, when it comes to plotting in Mathematica, so I'm hoping that someone can ...
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How to create a wind rose with Mathematica?
I am trying to plot wind rose in Mathematica, but have no idea how to do this.
Any suggestions ?
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How to generate a picture like this?
How to generate a picture like the following (from Paolo Čerić's blog)? I'd like the surface of the manifold to randomly distort.
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Changing the background color of the framed region of a plot
I frequently generate framed plots like this:
Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2 π}, Frame -> True]
Is there an easy way to change the background color of the framed ...
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Flipping axis on a plot
I want to make a 2D plot where the x-axis is flipped so the higher numbers are on the right and lower numbers are on the left.
I've managed to do it by flipping the data and making new ...
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Is there an option to change the space/distance between tick labels and axes labels for plots?
In an attempt to squeeze more plots and controls into the limited space for a demo UI, I am trying to remove any extra white spaces I see.
I am not sure what options to use to reduce the amount of ...
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3D heatmap density plot
I have a set of data that looks like {{x1, y1, z1}, {x2, y2, z2}, ...} so it describes points in 3D space. I want to make a heatmap out of this data. So that points ...
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Plot, extract data to a file
I need to save data that Mathematica uses inside the Plot command. The format that I would like to have is:
x1 y1
x2 y2
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Drawing Clifford Attractors in Mathematica
I came upon the "Clifford Attractor" today, which are equations of the form:
$$x_{n+1}=\sin(a\ y_n) + c \cos(x_n)$$
$$y_{n+1}=\sin(b\ x_n) + d \cos(y_n)$$
They create some incredible images by ...
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Specifying non-conflicting PlotTheme options
A bug or limitation in 10.0.0 affects a few of these examples; it was resolved in 10.1.0.
I am trying out Mathematica 10 on https://programming.wolframcloud.com. ...
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How to insert a plot into another plot
I would like to know whether there is a way to insert a plot into another plot.
I would like to do some plot from a function an then, inside this plot, in the right down corner add a smaller plot of ...
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How can I make points "glow"?
I have a set of points in the plane which I would like to have "glow". I would like for each point to glow individually and I would also like some increase in the intensity corresponding to an ...
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Real Size Image Printing
I am generating a complicated graphics with Mathematica, but with objects of given sizes (e.g. a line of length 1 inch, between two points). I want to make sure that when I export the graphics, e.g. ...
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How to plot planar graphs as such?
A planar graph is a graph that can be drawn in the plane such that no two edges cross.
For example, the graph ...
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No warning when extrapolating with Plot
One of the most annoying "features" of Mathematica is that the Plot family does extrapolation on InterpolatingFunctions without ...
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Remove tick labels, but retain tick marks in RegionPlot (and related functions)
I would like to remove the numbering on the axes of the following RegionPlot. I would like to keep the tick marks but drop the numbering, I haven't figured out how ...
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Plot a piecewise function with black and white disks marking discontinuities
Let's say I'd like to plot Sign[x + 0.5]:
Plot[Sign[x + 0.5], {x, -1, 1}]
Mathematica will give this:
This plot does not ...
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Visualize an irrational number
I would like to visualize an irrational number like the square root of 2 with Mathematica. I found this visualization of Pi in the internet and wonder how this ...
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Joining and interpolating data points
I wonder what is the best practice for interpolating curves? Usually, I'm using BSplineCurve and adjusting SplineWeights so it ...
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xkcdConvert routines perform slower in Mathematica 9
I am experiencing some rather large performance decreases in Mathematica version 9.0 using the xkcd-styled plotting routines.
I had used the xkcdConvert code ...
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How to make a 3D topographic globe?
I've made some attempt with this dataset of elevation.
But I have some trouble with ListSurfacePlot3D, which can not show the globe correctly:
And I've checked ...
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Symbolic derivatives are being calculated numerically
Update: (1) By V11, not sure of the exact version, the derivative IntegerPart' has been given a symbolic definition. (2) The numeric derivative computed has changed ...
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ShowLegend values
How do I get ShowLegend to put the max and min values that a plot produces.
for example, when using ListDensityPlot, with ...
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I'd like to display field lines for a point charge in 3 dimensions
I'd like to display field lines for a point charge in 3 dimensions. Not a force field (short arrows) but continuous field lines that start on the charge.
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Plotting large datasets
I have a lot of data (e.g., 64x8192), to plot and it consumes too much memory (more than 2 GB) causing Mathematica to return "no memory available".
For example,
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How does Plot work?
I considered the following function:
sin[x_] := Module[{},
Print["x=", x];
Sin[x]
]
in Mathematica. Next, I tried to plot it using:
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Make legend same height as plot
One common style for density plots is to have a vertical legend that is the same height as the plot itself. Some example density plots from Google Image search:
How can we make DensityPlots with ...
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Problems specifying number of bins in Histogram
So I wanted to create a Histogram with a custom number of bins. Luckily there is a simple function for this in the form of Histogram[data, n] where n specifies the ...
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Visual representation of a Ranking over time (image provided)
[Disclaimer: I initially posted this question on stackOverflow 2 months ago and think it might be better suited for this forum (link to original question)]
The graph below shows a ranking of ...
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What is wrong with triangle PlotMarkers in v.10.0.0?
Bug introduced in 10.0.0 and fixed in 10.0.1
In Mathematica 10.0.0 we have built-in graphical triangle PlotMarkers. Let us look closer on them:
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Terrifying performance decrease for contour/density plots in v10.1 -> 10.3
Bug introduced in 10.3 and fixed in 10.3.1
I setup for download a test dataset at http://www.inrim.it/~magni/cm.dat.gz (a set of 64800 triplets x,y,z).
The behavior can be reproduced with the ...
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Shading between polar graphs
Since PolarPlot doesn't support Filling, what is the best way to shade or fill the a region between two polar curves?
For ...
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Show density plot on a geographic map
I have a bunch of data points in the form of {latitude, longitude}. How can I plot their density on a US map? Single points on the map do not clearly show their ...
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How to keep markers as dots in a joined ListPlot?
Consider the following typical interactive sequence. First I produce a ListPlot:
OK, not bad, but I want those dots to be bigger, and also joined. First, I make ...
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Is it possible to draw really thin lines in Mathematica?
I want to have in Mathematica the same result I have in Python:
I have this nice effect simply by using very thin lines. But it seems in Mathematica thickness property has some limit and i just got ...
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Plot Option Precedence while combining Plots with Show[]
I like to build sophisticated plots by combining simpler ones with Show[]. Typically this involves setting non-default Plot-Options with the different Plot-Commands,...
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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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