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Article #9175Re: Scientific graphing packages
From: Roy Smith
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 01:30
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 01:30
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Isn't it amazing how users always want something the available
programs can't do? The other day, somebody wanted to make a graph where the
y axis was broken, with a change of scale, like so:
30 | X
|
20 | X
|
10 | X
/
/
3 | X
|
2 | X
|
1 | X
|
+------------------------------------------------
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
No, they didn't want a log-y plot, nor did they want to plot the top
and bottom parts of the graph in two pieces like a Cricket Graph double-y
plot. What they wanted was a split y axis with a change of scale. Anybody
know of any programs which can deal with that?
And, while I'm on the subject, I once had somebody who wanted to
make a plot where the y values increased from the top to the bottom of the
graph (i.e. an "inverted" y axis). Seems that is the conventional way to
make the kind of graph he was makeing. Cricket Graph, however, does some
"error checking" and insists that Ymax > Ymin.
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
"My karma ran over my dogma"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Scientific graphing packages Message-ID: <1989Dec9.013057.1976@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 9 Dec 89 01:30:57 GMT References: <1354@merlin.bhpmrl.oz> <7413@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Reply-To: roy@alanine.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC Lines: 36