Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: sfeam Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Complex Plot Question - Apr. 3, 2012 Followup-To: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:24:33 -0700 Organization: gnuplot development team Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: sfeam@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:24:35 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3mhAfh4CeAIeL3OKnPexDA"; logging-data="17133"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19owuNl3oJRMm/ZhydDNNnX" User-Agent: KNode/4.4.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zcgHljOMEWUPJm5eer0ODJd8vXQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:1011 E.D.G. wrote: > gnuplot 4.2 and Windows XP and Vista are being used. > > Question: Can anyone supply code for storing the plot displayed on > the screen as some type of picture file or other type of file, and > then immediately reloading that file for use as the background for a > new plot? > > I know how to generate png files etc. that contain the screen > data. But I don't know if those types of files can be reloaded. Not in version 4.2. In more recent versions: plot 'whatever.png' binary filetype=png with rgbimage > Plots with information from so many different files are being > generated that it appears that the plot command is eventually simply > running out of steam. And error messages are being generated. Perhaps you should show us the error messages. > Or, is there a better way to deal with that plot command limitation? What plot command limitation? "running out of steam" doesn't help much as an error description. How many data points are you dealing with? What gnuplot terminal type? Are you trying to rotate data interactively in 3D, or is this a static display?