--[[ $Id: x17.lua 9526 2009-02-13 22:06:13Z smekal $ Plots a simple stripchart with four pens. Copyright (C) 2008 Werner Smekal This file is part of PLplot. PLplot is free software you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Library Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. PLplot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with PLplot if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA --]] -- initialise Lua bindings for PLplot examples. dofile("plplot_examples.lua") -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- main -------------------------------------------------------------------------- nsteps = 1000 colline = {} legline = {} -- plplot initialization -- Parse and process command line arguments pl.parseopts(arg, pl.PL_PARSE_FULL) -- User sets up plot completely except for window and data -- Eventually settings in place when strip chart is created will be -- remembered so that multiple strip charts can be used simultaneously. -- Specify some reasonable defaults for ymin and ymax -- The plot will grow automatically if needed (but not shrink) ymin = -0.1 ymax = 0.1 -- Specify initial tmin and tmax -- this determines length of window. -- Also specify maximum jump in t -- This can accomodate adaptive timesteps tmin = 0 tmax = 10 tjump = 0.3 -- percentage of plot to jump -- Axes options same as plbox. -- Only automatic tick generation and label placement allowed -- Eventually I'll make this fancier colbox = 1 collab = 3 styline = { 2, 3, 4, 5 } -- line style colline = { 2, 3, 4, 5 } -- pens color legline= { "sum", "sin", "sin*noi", "sin+noi" } -- pens legend xlab = 0 -- legend position ylab = 0.25 autoy = 1 -- autoscale y acc = 1 -- don't scrip, accumulate -- Initialize plplot pl.init() pl.adv(0) pl.vsta() id1 = pl.stripc("bcnst", "bcnstv", tmin, tmax, tjump, ymin, ymax, xlab, ylab, autoy, acc, colbox, collab, colline, styline, legline, "t", "", "Strip chart demo") autoy = 0 -- autoscale y acc = 1 -- accumulate -- This is to represent a loop over time -- Let's try a random walk process y1 = 0 y2 = 0 y3 = 0 y4 = 0 dt = 0.1 for n = 0, nsteps-1 do for i = 0, 200000 do end t = n * dt noise = pl.randd() - 0.5 y1 = y1 + noise y2 = math.sin(t*math.pi/18) y3 = y2 * noise y4 = y2 + noise/3 -- There is no need for all pens to have the same number of -- points or beeing equally time spaced. if math.mod(n, 2)~=0 then pl.stripa(id1, 0, t, y1) end if math.mod(n, 3)~=0 then pl.stripa(id1, 1, t, y2) end if math.mod(n, 4)~=0 then pl.stripa(id1, 2, t, y3) end if math.mod(n, 5)~=0 then pl.stripa(id1, 3, t, y4) end end -- Destroy strip chart and it's memory pl.stripd(id1) pl.plend()