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Re: Plotting functions in IDL [message #5504]

Wed, 17 January 1996 00:00

M.Reuss
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Registered: January 1996

Junior Member

For plotting, IDL needs a vector of points to plot.
Therefore you evaluate your function at enough points and
then plot this vector.

Suppose the function MYFUNCTION can be evaluated at one point only
in each call and you want to plot it in the range [20,140.], one point
at each integer number being sufficient for you. Then the following should do
the job:

xarr = FINDGEN(121) + 20.
yarr = FLTARR(121)
FOR i = 0,N_ELEMENTS(xarr)-1 DO yarr(i) = MYFUNCTION(xarr(i))

PLOT,xarr,yarr

This will look even more simple if the function code allows to handle
a whole array in one call.

I am afraid I haven't understood what you mean with 'no equations'. You can
code in IDL everything which you can code in FORTRAN, all numerical math
works with IDL (there can be a performance problem, though).
If you mean computer algebra, that's something very different...

Matthias Reuss

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