Re: plotting questions

[Robert A. Macy]

Ron,

I'm running the old 
  octave-2.1.50a-inst.exe 
    binary for Windows 
on Win98

The plot symbols are EXACTLY as expected.  Plus, they're
sized "just right" The default plot window size has the
right size symbols.  Didn't try enlarging the plot to see
if size followed, but, like you, I like the console window
to share the screen with the plot. 

octave 2.1.50 is very old and does not support matrices
with more than two indices, but the plotting bundled in
there is very well behaved.  

            - Robert -

On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:08:41 -0700
 Ron Crummett <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello everyone -
> 
> I have been playing with some basic plotting and have a
> couple questions about it:
> 
> -We can specify different point plotting styles using
> flags such as '*', 'o', '+', 'x' (and maybe others too,
>  but these are the main ones I've been playing with.  I
> would expect these to plot something similar on the plot
> window, but I find that
> '*' plots what I would expect from 'o'
> 'o' plots what I would expect from '+'
> '+' plots what I would expect from 'x'
> 'x' plots a square
> 
> It seems reasonable to me that if I am to enter "plot(x,
> y, 'x')" I should get 'x' points on the plot, but instead
> I get little squares.  Am I the only one that has this,
> or does something need to be changed in general?
> 
> -Secondly, I have noticed that when I expand a plot
> window, the point size expands.  Take the example I just
> laid out.  If I have a small plot window, I can hardly
> tell that they are squares, but if I expand to a full
> screen then I can tell for sure.  I prefer to have my
> plots small so that I can view them and my terminal
> window at the same time, but if I do this plotted points
> hardly look different from lines.  I have noticed that in
> Matlab the point plots stay the same.  Is there something
> that can be done about this?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Ron



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