# # $Id: polar.dem,v 1.9 2017/02/15 04:21:38 sfeam Exp $ # # Various ways of plotting functions in polar coordinates # unset border set clip set polar set xtics axis nomirror set ytics axis nomirror unset rtics set samples 160 set zeroaxis set trange [0:2*pi] set title "Three circles (with aspect ratio distortion)" plot .5,1,1.5 pause -1 "Hit return to continue" set title "" set key box plot cos(2*t) pause -1 "Hit return to continue" plot 2*sqrt(cos(t)),-2*sqrt(cos(t)) pause -1 "Hit return to continue" plot sin(4*t),cos(4*t) set offset 0,0,0,0 pause -1 "Hit return to continue" set xrange [-5:5] set yrange [-5:5] plot t/cos(3*t) pause -1 "Hit return to continue" set autoscale plot 1-sin(t) pause -1 "Hit return to continue" set trange [0:12*pi] plot 2*t pause -1 "Hit return to continue" butterfly(x)=exp(cos(x))-2*cos(4*x)+sin(x/12)**5 set samples 800 set title "Butterfly" unset key plot butterfly(t) pause -1 "Hit return to continue" reset set polar set grid polar unset xtics unset ytics set border 0 set style fill solid 0.5 set rrange [0.1 : 4] set size square set key title "bounding radius 2.5" set key outside top right samplen 0.7 plot 3.+sin(t)*cos(5*t) with filledcurve above r=2.5 notitle,\ 3.+sin(t)*cos(5*t) with line pause -1 "Hit return to continue" # undo what we've done above reset