Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=F6ker?= Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: parsing of alphanumeric columns; plotting fences Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:04:00 +0200 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <98vv5sFkb7U1@mid.dfncis.de> References: <98m5nsFqfdU1@mid.dfncis.de> <145c05af-5e22-4f50-b828-bc41126dfe62@ft10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <98r968Fv7cU2@mid.dfncis.de> <94717c6a-e917-4809-89da-f15cb0dc21a4@f35g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.dfncis.de b6LoYfrn8aTes+z2sm4YxA5b7SezFD/7oNWmriWZHYTPbIhe3K4pYJGWeE Cancel-Lock: sha1:KTU6sZwQ8TQS+wK40J0OPnYZSGo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <94717c6a-e917-4809-89da-f15cb0dc21a4@f35g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:471 >> See "help splot datafile" about how to structure your file properly. > I don't know how often I read it but did not understand it. Actually you seem to be doing just fine. You figured out how to reach grid structure, didn't you? > Could somebody explain how to create a fence plot? I understand that > this works > somehow using parametric coordinates, That's for turning _function_ plots into fences. For data, it's a bit simpler: apply your knowledge about building grids to turn each individual line of (n) data points into an (n x 2) surface. Separate surfaces by double blank lines.