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Re: IDL plot axes - how to show "range missing" squiggle? [message #54476]

Wed, 13 June 2007 08:00

Paolo Grigis
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Registered: December 2003

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mark.t.douglas@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible in IDL to decorate an axis with a squiggle to show that
> there is an ignored data range? Something like
>
> |--/\/---|-----|-----|-----|-----|
> 0 10 11 12 13 14
>
> I am 100% positive I saw an IDL-produced graphic with such a squiggle
> in it somewhere, but I can't for the life of me remember where. I
> don't know what the technical term for the squiggle is, so googling
> hasn't helped...
>
> Thanks!
>

Just that you see what kind of results you can expect...
check out the vertical axes of figure 2 in:

http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/papers/pgrigis/1367.pdf

It's probably not too bad, but don't expect such a plot
to win any prize at the next graphic arts contest... it's
IDL direct graphics after all (nowadays I would put
truetype fonts instead of Hersheys).

Ciao,
Paolo

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