[lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot

[Todd Ruskell]

Can't say I've played a lot with it, but you could try plotting all the 
contours with the same line type, and then use the label command to label a 
few of the contours so the reader can figure out the slope and size of the 
contour steps.

Certainly not a perfect solution, but depending on your application, it might 
not be too bad.  On the other hand, I agree that the sample contour plots 
from R do at least look pretty.

You didn't necessarily specify "free" software, so I suppose I should mention 
Matlab and Mathematica, if you happen to have access to them.  

Todd

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 08:58 pm, Daniel Webb wrote:
> It stinks for publishing 3D data in black and white (like journals).  No 3D
> bar plots.  No ability to print the contour level on the contours (like a
> topo map).  How stupid is that to have to look over at a legend to figure
> out which of the 8 slightly different kinds of dotted lines correspond to
> which level?
>
> Know of anything better for 3D that runs on Linux?

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