| Re: "broken" scale in IDL plot [message #34564] |
Sat, 22 March 2003 07:30  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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aszazeroth (aszazeroth@yahoo.com) writes:
> I was wondering if anyone have any experience in "breaking" the
> scaling in IDL plot mode.
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> I would like to plot a 10% of the y-axis in a linear scale and then
> change to logarithmic (base 10) scale for the rest of the 90%... the
> x-scale is all linear.
I think you will have to do something like this:
data = Findgen(1000) + 1
plot, data, Position=[0.15, 0.15, 0.9, 0.35], XStyle=8, $
YRange=[1,99], YStyle=1
plot, data, Position=[0.15, 0.35, 0.9, 0.9], XStyle=4, $
YRange=[101,1000], /YLog, /NoErase
axis, xaxis=1, xtickformat='(A1)'
Cheers,
David
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| Re: "broken" scale in IDL plot [message #34592 is a reply to message #34564] |
Mon, 31 March 2003 04:21  |
aszazeroth
Messages: 2
Registered: March 2003
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David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.18e62f81808da424989b28@news.frii.com>...
> aszazeroth (aszazeroth@yahoo.com) writes:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone have any experience in "breaking" the
>> scaling in IDL plot mode.
>>
>> I would like to plot a 10% of the y-axis in a linear scale and then
>> change to logarithmic (base 10) scale for the rest of the 90%... the
>> x-scale is all linear.
>
> I think you will have to do something like this:
>
> data = Findgen(1000) + 1
> plot, data, Position=[0.15, 0.15, 0.9, 0.35], XStyle=8, $
> YRange=[1,99], YStyle=1
> plot, data, Position=[0.15, 0.35, 0.9, 0.9], XStyle=4, $
> YRange=[101,1000], /YLog, /NoErase
> axis, xaxis=1, xtickformat='(A1)'
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
THANX, that made the trick... EXACTLY what I needed to do my plot. Thank you again.
//Aszazeroth
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