Re: Re: Trilinear plots
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- Subject: [mg4689] Re: [mg4654] Re: [mg4573] Trilinear plots
- From: Guenther Gsaller <guenther.gsaller at ivnet.co.at>
- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 18:23:16 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
At 3:55 Uhr 22.08.1996, Xah Lee wrote: >At 5:15 AM 96/8/16, Michael Friendly wrote: >>I'm looking for ideas on how to do trilinear plots, ie, plots >>on three axes which form an equilateral triangle (where the three coords are >>usually scaled so they sum to 1 for each observation)? >> >>Equivalently, this plot can be described as a plot of the locations of 3D >>points in the plane defined by x+y+z=1. > >Holy cow! This seems very interesting. Just for the curiosity of how >functions would appear as such plot, I might be interested to write a >package for it, with user specifying arbitrary number of axes and slant. > >Can anyone give me some information about such plot? Such as more detailed >description, its use? This kind of plots are often used in geography, geochemistry to visualize data of different fields. Because my wife teaches geography, I have seen them before. Examples: Part of Soil: sand, clay, Schluff (German word) Part of BIP for different countries: agriculture, industry, tertiar sector Part of people working in agriculture, industry, service for different sized communities I have an article, written in German, how to use such plots. If I can help you let me know. Guenther -------------------------- Guenther Gsaller guenther.gsaller at ivnet.co.at -------------------------- ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====