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Re: need more plotting symbols please [message #50047 is a reply to message #50038]

Sat, 02 September 2006 11:18

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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larkn10 writes:

> When I am in a similar situation my plots get pretty cluttered. But
> anyway,
> if thirty-some symbols are not good enough, you can have a parallel set
> of
> colors and wrap through those as well.
>
> e.g. 10 colors and 31 symbols gives you 310 options. (Is my math
> right?)

I wrote a small function that combines some of the things
I found in MC_SYMBOL with some ideas I had developed in
MPI_PLOTCONFIG. There are 44 symbols in this symbol catalog
function. The return value of the function is used as
input to the PSYM keyword in graphics commands. For example,
to use an hourglass symbol (symbol number 19), you would
type this:

Plot, findgen(11), Symsize=2.0, PSym=SYMCAT(19)

You can find the program here:

http://www.dfanning.com/programs/symcat.pro

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: Dilkushi@gmail.com on Tue, 05 September 2006 09:04
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: David Fanning on Sat, 02 September 2006 11:18
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: Dilkushi@gmail.com on Fri, 01 September 2006 13:46
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: larkn10 on Fri, 01 September 2006 12:06
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: Matthias Cuntz on Thu, 31 August 2006 21:35
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 August 2006 16:14
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: don.woodraska on Mon, 02 October 2006 09:17

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