[lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot
Steve Sullivan
sullivan at mathcom.com
Fri Oct 13 05:32:58 MDT 2006
Hi Daniel,
Here are some other plotting packagess you might try.
This only a partial list ... have you tried searching sourceforge?
Also have you tried searching on "scientific visualization"?
gmt (generic mapping tools): http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
plplot: http://plplot.sourceforge.net/
openSceneGraph: http://66.220.18.234/
open visualization data explorer: http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/
gri: http://gri.sourceforge.net/
VisAD: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/visad.html
Vis5D: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis5d.html
gnuplot: http://www.gnuplot.info/ (well, you know this one!)
gnu plotutils: http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/plotutils.html
kmatplot: http://kmatplot.sourceforge.net/
grace: http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/
*** Can you post the result of your exploration back on BLUG
*** so the rest of us can benefit?
Thanks,
Steve
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> 7. BLUG Meeting Announcement - 2006-10-12 (Chris Riddoch)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:43:57 -0600
> From: Paul Nowosielski <paul at celebrityaccess.com>
> Subject: [lug] excluding directories with rsync
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
> <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
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> Dear All,
>
> I'm trying to setup an rsync script to push data from a dev box to a live box.
>
> The files live in different directories under /var/www
>
> I need to exclude 5 of the directories and their content from being
> propagated.
>
> I've found a command to exclude files but not directories.
>
> Does anyone know of a command or switch to do this?
>
> Thank you,
>
> --
> Paul Nowosielski
> Webmaster
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>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:14:27 -0600
> From: Dan Ferris <dan at usrsbin.com>
> Subject: Re: [lug] excluding directories with rsync
> To: paul at celebrityaccess.com, "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group --
> General Mailing List" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Message-ID: <452D6CC3.6020901 at usrsbin.com>
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> I use --exclude-file= and then a file with the list of stuff to exclude.
>
> It takes files or directories.
>
> Dan
>
> Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup an rsync script to push data from a dev box to a live box.
> >
> > The files live in different directories under /var/www
> >
> > I need to exclude 5 of the directories and their content from being
> > propagated.
> >
> > I've found a command to exclude files but not directories.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a command or switch to do this?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >
>
> --
> Build a man a fire and warm him for a night. Set a man on fire and warm him for the rest of his life.
>
> I'm not lazy. I just hang out a lot.
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>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:14:36 -0600
> From: Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
> Subject: Re: [lug] excluding directories with rsync
> To: paul at celebrityaccess.com, "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group --
> General Mailing List" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Message-ID: <1160604876.16635.2.camel at localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:43 -0600, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup an rsync script to push data from a dev box to a live box.
> >
> > The files live in different directories under /var/www
> >
> > I need to exclude 5 of the directories and their content from being
> > propagated.
> >
> > I've found a command to exclude files but not directories.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a command or switch to do this?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
>
> --exclude works fine for both files and directories.
> For example, here is the command from a backup script I used to use:
>
> ssh oberon rsync -az \
> --password-file=/root/rsync-password \
> --verbose \
> --verbose \
> --numeric-ids \
> --delete --delete-excluded \
> --exclude=/proc \
> --exclude=/sys \
> --exclude=/tmp \
> --exclude=/var/tmp \
> --exclude=/usr/tmp \
> / snapshot at green::snapshots/${newdir#/home/snapshots} \
> > /tmp/oberon.log 2>/tmp/oberon.errors </dev/null
>
> --
> Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:58:57 -0600
> From: Daniel Webb <lists at danielwebb.us>
> Subject: [lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
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> 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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> From: Evelyn Mitchell <efm at tummy.com>
> Subject: Re: [lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
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> * On 2006-10-11 20:59 Daniel Webb <lists at danielwebb.us> 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?
> >
> R does lovely plots:
> http://www.r-project.org/
> http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/screenshots.html
>
> 3d bar charts, unless your data actually has 3 dimensions, are terribly
> misleading.
>
> --
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:00:59 -0600
> From: Daniel Webb <lists at danielwebb.us>
> Subject: Re: [lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
> <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
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> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:06:28PM -0600, Evelyn Mitchell wrote:
>
> > R does lovely plots:
> > http://www.r-project.org/
> > http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/screenshots.html
> >
> > 3d bar charts, unless your data actually has 3 dimensions, are terribly
> > misleading.
>
> I looked briefly at that page even before I wrote the email, but didn't see
> that it can create contour plots like a topo map.
>
> My data is from a parametric study with 5 values each of 2 independent
> parameters, for a total of 25 data. Each combination of parameters results in
> a real-valued output and also a true/false output. If you can think of a
> better way to represent that than a 3D bar plot with the height of the bars
> determined by the real-value output and the thatching of the bar determined by
> the true/false output, I would love to know because I'd love to use gnuplot
> and not have to learn something new. Any non-discrete representation of this
> data will be somewhat misleading because it is a small enough amount of data
> that it shouldn't be considered continuous.
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:39:21 -0600
> From: Todd Ruskell <truskell at mines.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
> <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
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> 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?
>
> --
> Dr. Todd G. Ruskell Phone: 303-384-2080
> Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics FAX: 303-273-3919
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> Golden, CO 80401
>
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:02:29 -0600
> From: Daniel Webb <lists at danielwebb.us>
> Subject: Re: [lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
> <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Message-ID: <20061012060229.GW3963 at drivebymail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:39:21PM -0600, Todd Ruskell wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I am considering doing that. It's a pain though, because there are 8 of these
> plots and I have already changed the data several times. I may label them as
> you suggest when I am sure they're not going to change, but it will be a pain
> to manually set all those labels if the data shifts.
>
> > 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.
>
> I can't evaluate if R can do either of the things I asked about (contours with
> levels or 3D bar). For example here is one that can do the contours:
>
> http://www.mps.mpg.de/dislin/exa_cont.html
>
> It's not free as in speech, but then, neither is gnuplot and I've been using
> that.
>
> > You didn't necessarily specify "free" software, so I suppose I should mention
> > Matlab and Mathematica, if you happen to have access to them.
>
> I don't have either of those on my computers or I would probably just use
> Matlab. Plus, once I leave school they're #@#$! expensive considering what
> little I would use them for personally.
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:10:20 -0600
> From: Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com>
> Subject: Re: [lug] excluding directories with rsync
> To: paul at celebrityaccess.com, "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group --
> General Mailing List" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Message-ID: <20061012101020.GA5158 at tummy.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:43:57PM -0600, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> >I need to exclude 5 of the directories and their content from being
> >propagated.
>
> As others have mentioned, rsync can do directories as well. Read the man
> page, it has *EXTENSIVE* options for file selection that only reading the
> man page can really do justice to it. The short form is that you can
> specify a directory by giving a trailing /. So "sys/" matches any
> directory named "sys", where "sys" matches a file or directory. And
> "/sys/" matches only the directory named "sys" at the root of the rsync
> file-system.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
> --
> Brooks's Law of Prototypes: Plan to throw one away, you will anyhow.
> Sean Reifschneider, Member of Technical Staff <jafo at tummy.com>
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>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:50:27 +0000
> From: Andrew GIlmore <agilmore at wirelessbeehive.com>
> Subject: Re: [lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
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> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 23:00 -0600, Daniel Webb wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:06:28PM -0600, Evelyn Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > > R does lovely plots:
> > > http://www.r-project.org/
> > > http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/screenshots.html
> > >
> > > 3d bar charts, unless your data actually has 3 dimensions, are terribly
> > > misleading.
> >
> > I looked briefly at that page even before I wrote the email, but didn't see
> > that it can create contour plots like a topo map.
>
> I've done this with R. I can't compare it with gnuplot, because I've had
> the same problem getting gnuplot to do contours. I know I've seen it
> suggested that gnuplot can, though.
>
> I will not say that R is great for plots though. Extreme control over
> axes and text labels is a real pain.
>
> The attached plot was created with the following R command:
>
> contour(c(2008:2060),breaks[2:19],d,col=terrain.colors(20),
> zlim=c(0,40))
>
> d is a sample of modeling results for Lake Powell elevation. :)
>
> I would also say that the colors, etc. on this plot are not great, but
> it is an example.
>
> Andrew
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> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:12:24 -0600
> From: Matt Thompson <thompsma at jilau1.colorado.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
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> The heavens stretched forth and Daniel Webb decreed the following on or
> about 10/11/2006 08:58 PM:
> > 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?
>
> A dumb question, but did you try the label_contours.awk script that
> Gnuplot has on it's script page:
>
> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/scripts/index.html#tricks-here
>
> It's not the greatest, but it does sort of label the contours. Their
> example is a wee bit busy though (the textcolor=-1 can be...psychedelic).
>
> Matt
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