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"scons lock" works just fine and the resulted image is ready to be used in a paper with the regular macros like <tt>\plot</tt> or <tt>\multiplot</tt> . | "scons lock" works just fine and the resulted image is ready to be used in a paper with the regular macros like <tt>\plot</tt> or <tt>\multiplot</tt> . | ||
− | The only problem that appears is when "scons view" is run. It tries to run xtpen to view the resulted PDF file and fails, of course. But other than that, the result shows a nice isometric plot, which can be easily reproduced in a regular Madagascar fashion. | + | The only problem that appears is when "scons view" is run. It tries to run xtpen to view the resulted PDF file and fails, of course. But other than that, the result (figure below) shows a nice isometric plot, which can be easily reproduced in a regular Madagascar fashion. |
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Revision as of 15:56, 25 June 2009
The Graphics Layout Engine is a multi-platform open-source package that can create a whole variety of plots from user-defined scripts. It has both very basic drawing primitives and more advanced canvases. It is similar to the vplot core library, with the difference is that plotting templates are saved in script files instead of C programs. Here is an example of a SConstruct drawing a simple 2D analytic function in isometric view: <python> from rsfproj import *
o1=-2 o2=-2 n1=41 n2=41 d1=0.1 d2=0.1
Flow('cosxpy',None,
math o1=%g o2=%g n1=%d n2=%d d1=%g d2=%g output="cos(x1*x1+x2*x2)*exp(-0.1*(x1*x1+x2*x2))" % (o1,o2,n1,n2,d1,d2))
Result('cosxpy','grey color=j')
- Prepare data for GLE
Flow('cosxpy.z','cosxpy',
disfil number=n col=%d | (echo "! nx %d ny %d xmin %g xmax %g ymin %g ymax %g" && /bin/cat) % (n2,n1,n2,o1,o1+(n1-1)*d1,o2,o2+(n2-1)*d2))
- Call GLE
Result('cosxpy_iso','cosxpy.gle cosxpy.z',
gle -device pdf -output ${TARGETS[0]} ${SOURCES[0]} ,suffix='.pdf',stdin=0,stdout=0)
End() </python> The trick is wrapped into the two last Result() and Flow() statements. The Flow generates a special ASCII file with function values, which will be later used by GLE. The Result actually calls GLE and makes it write a PDF file. The drawing script is contained in another file -- cosxpy.gle , which has a rather simple format:
size 10 10 set font texcmr hei 0.5 just tc begin surface size 10 10 data "cosxpy.z" title "Hat function (3D)" xtitle "X-axis" hei 0.4 dist 0.7 ytitle "Y-axis" hei 0.4 dist 0.7 ztitle "Z-axis" hei 0.4 dist 0.9 top color red underneath color blue base xstep 1 ystep 1 zaxis min -1.5 max 1.5 hei 0.35 xaxis hei 0.35 dticks 1 yaxis hei 0.35 dticks 1 xlines on ylines on rotate 45 60 0 end surface
"scons lock" works just fine and the resulted image is ready to be used in a paper with the regular macros like \plot or \multiplot . The only problem that appears is when "scons view" is run. It tries to run xtpen to view the resulted PDF file and fails, of course. But other than that, the result (figure below) shows a nice isometric plot, which can be easily reproduced in a regular Madagascar fashion.