From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Sep 4 15:07:31 1998 Subject: Plotting many curves From: Huaiyu Zhu To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:07:05 -0600 (MDT) Here're a few oddities about plotting I've noticed. There should be better ways of doing them: 1. When using "plot" each curve generates a separate file /tmp/oct-*. This seems very inefficient, especially if I want many line segments, like | | || | | | | | || | | | ----------------------- axis ([-4 4 0 2]); x = randn(10,1); y = zeros(size(x)); plot([x,x]',[y,y+.5]'); 2. How to remove all the legends? (Someone might have posted the answer a short while a ago but I did not save it.) How to make all the curves solid lines? 3. It also seems that I can't draw more than 24 lines in this way (because the legends would be out of page?). In matlab I routinely draw thousands of lines. These might be due to the way octave interacts with gnuplot - but I can't believe the famous gnu philosophy could coexists with such strict limitations. -- Huaiyu Zhu Tel: 1 505 984 8800 ext 305 Santa Fe Institute Fax: 1 505 982 0565 1399 Hyde Park Road mailto:zhuh at santafe dot edu Santa Fe, NM 87501 http://www.santafe.edu/~zhuh/ USA ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/zhuh/