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<h3>Examples of the new Maxima Gnuplot interface</h3>
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<h4>Basic usage</h4>
The Maxima-Gnuplot interface offers three terminal choices: <em>default</em>,
<em>ps</em> and <em>dumb</em>.
<FONT color="blue"><pre>
Maxima 5.9.0.1cvs http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp CMU Common Lisp 18e fedora release 0.fdr.2.e.1
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(C1) plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,2*%pi]);

(D1)
</pre></FONT>
<IMG src="sin-screenshot.png" width="648" height="474" border="0">
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(C2) plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,2*%pi],[gnuplot_term,ps],[gnuplot_out_file,"sin.eps"]);
output file "sin.eps".
(D2)
</pre></FONT>
<A href="sin.eps"><IMG src="sin.png" width="540" height="378" border="0"></A>
<br><em>Click on the above image to see the actual postscript file</em>
<FONT color="blue"><pre>
(C3) plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,2*%pi],[gnuplot_term,dumb]);



    1 ++--------+--$$$$$$$+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------++
      +         $$$      $$$        +         +         +     SIN(x) $$$$$$ +
      |       $$$           $$                                              |
      |      $$              $$$                                            |
  0.5 ++   $$                  $$                                          ++
      |   $$                    $$                                          |
      |  $$                      $$                                         |
      | $$                         $$                                       |
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    0 $+                             $$                             $$     ++
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 -0.5 ++                                  $$                    $$         ++
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      +         +         +         +         +$$$$     +$$$      +         +
   -1 ++--------+---------+---------+---------+---$$$$$$$---------+--------++
      0         1         2         3         4         5         6         7

(D3)
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<h4>More advanced usage</h4>
The new adaptive plotting routines (based on an algorithm from <A
href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~apinkus/yacas.html">yacas</A>) allow
plotting of functions with singularities.
<FONT color="blue"><pre>
(C4) plot2d([gamma(x),1/gamma(x)],[x,-4.5,5],[y,-10,10],
[gnuplot_preamble,"set key bottom"]);

(D4)
</pre></FONT>
<IMG src="gamma-screenshot.png" width="648" height="474" border="0">
<br><br>It is now possible to take advantage of the advanced features of
Gnuplot. Note the tick labels on the horizontal axis in the following figure.
<FONT color="blue"><pre>
(C5) plot2d([cos(x),sin(x),tan(x),cot(x)],[x,-2*%pi,2*%pi],[y,-2,2],
[gnuplot_preamble,"set xzeroaxis; set xtics ('-2pi' -6.283, '-3pi/2' -4.712,
'-pi' -3.1415, '-pi/2' -1.5708,  '0' 0,'pi/2' 1.5708, 'pi' 3.1415,'3pi/2' 4.712,
'2pi' 6.283)"]);

(D5)
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<br> The postscript version of the previous figure can take advantage of
Gnuplot's enhanced postscript terminal.
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(C6)
plot2d([cos(x),sin(x),tan(x)],[x,-2*%pi,2*%pi],[y,-2,2],[gnuplot_preamble,"set
xzeroaxis; set xtics ('-2{/Symbol p}' -6.283, '-3{/Symbol p}/2' -4.712,
'-{/Symbol p}' -3.1415, '-{/Symbol p}/2' -1.5708,  '0' 0,'{/Symbol p}/2' 1.5708,
'{/Symbol p}' 3.1415,'3{/Symbol p}/2' 4.712, '2{/Symbol p}'
6.283)"],[gnuplot_term,ps],[gnuplot_out_file,"trig.eps"]);

output file "trig.eps"
(D6)
</pre></FONT>
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<h4>3D plotting and pm3d</h4>
<h5>Plotting without pm3d</h5>
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<FONT color="blue"><pre>
(C7) plot3d(atan(-x^2+y^3/4),[x,-4,4],[y,-4,4],[grid,50,50]);

(D7)
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<h5>Plotting with pm3d</h5>
Gnuplot 4.0 includes pm3d, which provides many advanced options for three- and
four-dimensional plotting. Use of pm3d is turned off by default because Gnuplot
4.0 is not yet commonly installed. (Indeed, as of this writing, April 15, 2004,
Gnuplot 4.0 has not yet been officially released.) If Gnuplot 4.0 (or one of the
many earlier cvs/beta releases) is installed, Maxima can take
advantage of the features in pm3d.
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<br>The default plot with pm3d includes a mesh and a colored surface.
<FONT color="blue"><pre>
(C8)
plot3d(atan(-x^2+y^3/4),[x,-4,4],[y,-4,4],[grid,50,50],[gnuplot_pm3d,true]);
(D8)
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(C9)
plot3d(atan(-x^2+y^3/4),[x,-4,4],[y,-4,4],[grid,50,50],[gnuplot_pm3d,true],[gnup
lot_preamble,"set pm3d at s;unset surface;set contour;set cntrparam levels
20;unset key"]);

(D9)
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<br>The following variation includes the mesh and puts the colors on the base.
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(C10) surface-pm3d-2:
plot3d(atan(-x^2+y^3/4),[x,-4,4],[y,-4,4],[grid,50,50],[gnuplot_pm3d,true],[gnup
lot_preamble,"set pm3d at b"]);

(D10)
</pre></FONT>
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<br>Some functions are too complicated to be practically visualized with a mesh.
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(C11) plot3d(cos(-x^2+y^3/4),[x,-4,4],[y,-4,4],[grid,150,150]);

(D11)
</pre></FONT>
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<br>However, the above function can be effectively visualized using pm3d's "map
view."

<FONT color="blue"><pre>
(C12) plot3d(cos(-x^2+y^3/4),[x,-4,4],[y,-4,4],[gnuplot_preamble,"set view map;
unset surface"],[gnuplot_pm3d,true],[grid,150,150]);

(D12)
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