From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Plotting a graph of a function f, like f(x) = e^x, with MetaPost
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:40:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsCieJ710ftaUDPkJpmvHyhAKu3X94gtWAv4q-9GZE3fnw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318373112.3726.35.camel@mattotaupa>
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Dear ConTeXt folks,
>
>
> I finally chose MetaPost/MetaFun [1] because of the native integration
> with ConTeXt and hopefully easy font handling. I want to use that
> throughout my document.
>
> Of course I hit the first problem. Wanting to draw a “simple” function f
> like f(x) = e^x, seems hard to accomplish. I guess I should stress that
> MetaPost does not have a high accuracy so it might not be the best
> solution [5].
>
> There seem to be quite a lot of solutions (mostly macros) on the Web for
> this problem so I am wondering if one of them is integrated in MetaFun.
>
> Here are some of my findings.
>
> 1. Reading about the graph package by John D. Hobby [2] and which is
> also included in ConTeXt [3]. Especially I liked the automatic
> coordinate systems. The package seems to only be able to plot graphs
> with data points saved in files. So one solution would be to manually
> create data files with data points of the relevant function.
>
> 2. There is an example in the Drexel Physics Wiki [4].
>
> 3. Anthony Phan has also created some macros in his `mps` [5 (currently
> not accessible)].
>
> 4. André Heck uses the macro packages `courbes` and `grille` from
> Jean-Michel Sarlat to show some nice examples in his tutorial »Learning
> Metapost by Doing« [6].
>
>
> So what do you suggest?
In MKIV you can use Lua to make calculations in floating point, and
Metapost to draw the data.
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-11 22:45 Paul Menzel
2011-10-11 22:56 ` Paul Menzel
2011-10-11 22:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-10-12 5:36 ` Alan Braslau
2011-10-12 22:13 ` Paul Menzel
2011-10-12 22:28 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-10-12 23:19 ` Paul Menzel
2011-10-13 0:30 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-10-13 7:32 ` Hans Hagen
2011-10-13 7:59 ` Alan Braslau
2011-10-13 8:04 ` luigi scarso
2011-10-12 6:40 ` luigi scarso [this message]
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