Git commit 239c9214403899ae3f39ca9b315fac10797cb2a1 by Stefan Gerlach. Committed on 06/09/2016 at 04:20. Pushed by sgerlach into branch 'analysis_playground'.
added data reduction documentation M +26 -2 doc/index.docbook http://commits.kde.org/labplot/239c9214403899ae3f39ca9b315fac10797cb2a1 diff --git a/doc/index.docbook b/doc/index.docbook index 5543b66..70749e5 100644 --- a/doc/index.docbook +++ b/doc/index.docbook @@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ </copyright> <legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice> -<date>2016-07-15</date> -<releaseinfo>3.2.3</releaseinfo> +<date>2016-09-06</date> +<releaseinfo>3.2.4</releaseinfo> <abstract> <para> @@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ The menu is only available when a datapicker object is selected on the <guilabel <para>&LabPlot; supports a wide variety of data analysis functions: </para> <itemizedlist> + <listitem><para>Data reduction</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Interpolation</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Smoothing</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Nonlinear curve fitting</para></listitem> @@ -792,6 +793,29 @@ The menu is only available when a datapicker object is selected on the <guilabel The analysis functions can be accessed using the Analysis menu or the context menu of a worksheet. The newly created curves can be customized (line style, symbol style, &etc;) like any other x-y-curve.</para> + <sect1 id="data_reduction"> + <title>Data reduction</title> + <para> + To reduce the number of data points without losing the features of a data set + you can apply one of several line simplification algorithm: + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem><para>Douglas-Peucker</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Visvalingam-Whyatt</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Reumann-Witkam</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Perpendicular distance simplification</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>n-th point simplification</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Radial distance simplification</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Interpolation (nearest neighbor)</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Opheim</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Lang</para></listitem> + </itemizedlist> + <para> + The desired tolerance is automatically calculated from the data but can also be changed + in the dock widget. + </para> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="interpolation"> <title>Interpolation</title> <para>
