>Has anyone tried constructing a plotting window with MC ? Even a
>simple x-y line plot would be interesting, but I would also like to do a
>2D plot where intensity was represented by color (blue=0, red=max).
>I would have an x-y matrix of intensity values, which I would need
>to interpolate to obtain the intensity=color of each pixel.
>
I attempted to create a few simple plots with the MetaCard graphics,
but decided that it would be too complicated to construct what I needed.
As I recall, without a licensed home stack, your users would not be able
to create new graphics objects on the fly. There was no capability for
vertical text. Labeling tic marks would be a pain without the ability to
create new text fields on demand. It seems that there were several other
problems that I encountered as well.
>It looks possible in principle, but has anyone tried either the simple
>x-y line plot or the 2D intensity plot ? Would MC be fast enough to do
>this, or would I need to write an external procedure ?
>
I believe that someone has developed a library from an older version
of gnuplot. An enterprising person with lots of time on his hands might
use this library to create a set of MetaCard externals. I'd sure be
interested in helping test the results it they did. Hint, hint... :^)
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