Re: ASCII-Art function plotting, advice needed...
From Andreas Freise <ad...@mpq.mpg.de>
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· 14 Nov 2002 12:56 · View full thread
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On 14 Nov 2002 Harry Mason wrote: [...] > The problem I see with this is large gradients. For sin(x) it is quite > possible to create a smooth curve in ascii, but if you were drawing a few > more periods it would soon stop looking like sin(x) at all. [...] > You might want to talk to Markus Gebhard; he wrote a function plotter for > JavE (http://www.jave.de/). The code isn't available, but you could ask his > advice. Markus' plotter is quiet good. I assume he uses his "generic line" code to convert the function to an ascii line. That would be the same code as for the free-hand drawing tool. Just two examples (sine functions) : | | | ___ | _.-' `'-. | ,' `. | ,' `. | / `. | ,' \ | / `. | / \ ` ,' \ '`.''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''','''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''`. \ / | \ / | `. ,' | \ / | `. ,' | `. ,' | `. _,' | `--...-' | | | | | | | /\ /. b |.\ /\ /. b /| || | | || ||| /| || | | || || | | | | | | ||| || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | .' | | | | | | | | | .' | | | | | | '. | | | | | | | | | '. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | .' | | | | | | | | | .' | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | '''|'''|'''|'''|'''|'''|'''|'''|'''|'''|''|'''|'''|'''|'''|'''|'''|''' | | | | | | | | | .' | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | || || | | | | | | || || | | | | || | || || | | | | || |/ L| '/ || | || |/ L| '/ ' ' | ' ' | | | Of course the second is difficult to recognise as sin(...) but I think it is good enough. I actually had to use the Ascii terminal of Gnuplot for a while because my graphics card was broken and I had to get some results quickly. That terminal just used XXX for drawing and one has guess the result mostly. It is a pity that his code is not to be integrated into Gnuplot. I am a big fan of Gnuplot and would use an Ascii output like above just for fun. :) Andreas -- ________________________________________________ http://www.ascii-art.de
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From: Andreas Freise <ad...@mpq.mpg.de>
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Subject: Re: ASCII-Art function plotting, advice needed...
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