Yeah -- ploticus is a lot of fun to play with... wish i had more reasons to use it...
http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/weather/ <-only place i have found to use it (sort of...) here is the ploticus script that i used to make the weekly plot: -------snip------------------ #proc page #proc getdata file: temps.data fieldnames: datetime airtemp soiltemp solar #proc areadef rectangle: 1 1 6 3 xscaletype: datetime mm/dd/yy xautorange: datafield=datetime xaxis.label: Date xaxis.stubs: inc 1 day xaxis.stubformat: MMMdd yaxis.label: Temp (C) yaxis.stubs: inc #yrange: 0 100 yautorange: datafields=airtemp //plot the air temp #proc lineplot linedetails: color=blue width=.5 xfield: datetime yfield: airtemp legendlabel: air temp //plot the soil temp #proc lineplot linedetails: color=green width=.5 xfield: datetime yfield: soiltemp legendlabel: soil temp #proc areadef rectangle: 1 1 6 3 xscaletype: datetime mm/dd/yy xautorange: datafield=datetime xaxis.label: Date xaxis.stubs: inc 1 day xaxis.stubformat: MMMdd yaxis.label: Solar Radiation (Watts/sq.meter) yaxis.labeldistance: -0.6 yaxis.stubs: inc yautorange: datafields=solar yaxis.location: 6,0 yaxis.stubdetails: adjust=0.5,0 align=R //yaxis.stubdetails: adjust=0.3,0 align=L //plot the solar radiation #proc lineplot linedetails: color=red width=.5 xfield: datetime yfield: solar legendlabel: solar rad #proc legend format singleline location: min+1 max sep: 1 ------snip----------------- here is some of the data: DATE AIR SOIL SOLAR ------snip----------------- 05/22/03.01:00 21.7 18.0 0 05/22/03.02:00 21.1 17.7 0 05/22/03.03:00 20.7 17.4 0 05/22/03.04:00 20.4 17.1 0 05/22/03.05:00 20.5 16.8 3 05/22/03.06:00 18.8 16.5 35 05/22/03.07:00 22.0 16.3 269 05/22/03.08:00 24.3 16.1 455 05/22/03.09:00 25.3 16.1 626 05/22/03.10:00 26.9 16.2 768 ------snip----------------- good luck! -dylan on 03.5.29 6:39 PM, Peter Jay Salzman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen: > dylan, that's pretty cool (or rather, looking at the air temp, pretty > hot. arf arf). > > this looks like a command based tool, like gnuplot, but with more > impressive output. > > how large is the command set (not data) to produce a graph like this? > if it's only a few lines, can you post it to show what using ploticus > looks like? > > pete > > On Thu 29 May 03, 6:36 PM, Dylan Beaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> i like ploticus: >> http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/ >> >> i use it to automatically create all sorts of graphs: >> http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/weather/images/weekly_temps.png >> >> --dylan >> >> >> >> >>> On Thu 29 May 03, 4:12 PM, Nicole the Wonder Nerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>>> Up spake Jonathan Stickel on Thu, May 29, 2003 at 04:02:29PM -0700: >>>>> Anyway, my contribution to this thread is to recommend xfig for >>>>> "post-processing" of plots as well as drawing original diagrams. I >>>> have >>>> >>>> I would also like to plug 'dia'. It's a great tool for drawing those >>>> simple circles-boxes-and-arrows diagrams that we computer scientists >>>> thrive on. >>> >>> and it's a *really* fun program for the rest of us to play around with! >>> ;) >>> >>> if dia could only read visio formats, it would be nearly as much of a >>> "killer app" as apache, imho. >>> >>> i imagine it would be useful for EE's too... >>> >>> pete >>> >>> -- >>> GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg >>> GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D >>> _______________________________________________ >>> vox-tech mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vox-tech mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
