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Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? [message #35409 is a reply to message #35408]

Wed, 28 May 2003 06:22

so
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"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz> wrote in message news:<bb12df$qan$1@newsreader.mailgate.org>...
> "Steve" <so@cp.dias.ie> wrote in message
> news:178496d6.0305271647.468088fa@posting.google.com...
>> I would like to plot field lines but there coesn't seem to be an
>> intrinsic function which can do it. This seems hard to believe, am I
>> mistaken?
>
> What do you mean by "plot field lines". If you have (x,y) coordinates
> defining your lines, then PLOT them. Or do you want to plot isolines for a
> scalar field? Or lines in 3D space? Or cows walking along lines in fields?

Ouch. Well I guess I should have been more explicit to. I mean field
lines which are everywhere tangent to a vector field (2d is fine
thanks), also known as streamlines for velocity fields. I don't want
arrows anywhere. Or cows.

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		Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? By: jeyadev on Fri, 30 May 2003 12:02
		Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? By: so on Thu, 29 May 2003 07:58
		Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? By: mvukovic on Wed, 28 May 2003 16:29
		Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? By: wmconnolley on Wed, 28 May 2003 14:41
		Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? By: so on Wed, 28 May 2003 13:36
		Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? By: so on Wed, 28 May 2003 06:54
		Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? By: David Fanning on Wed, 28 May 2003 06:30
		Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? By: so on Wed, 28 May 2003 06:22
		Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? By: David Fanning on Tue, 27 May 2003 19:53
		Re: Is there a simple way to plot field lines? By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 27 May 2003 18:12

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