Re: is there a way to swap the axes in a Plot?
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- Subject: [mg29944] Re: is there a way to swap the axes in a Plot?
- From: "Orestis Vantzos" <atelesforos at hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 03:57:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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A general solution to inverting the graph of a function f[x] is to use
ParametricPlot:
ParametricPlot[{f[x],x},{x,x0,x1}]
Orestis
"David E. Burmaster" <deb at alceon.com> wrote in message
news:9j3a1k$im7$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Dear MathGroup,
>
> Is there an easy way to "transpose" the Plot of a graph?
>
> I know the inverse function in closed form (and it is impossible to invert
> in closed form).
>
> In other words, I have an equation in closed form for:
>
> x = f^-1[y]
>
> I want to Plot this inverse function, then "transpose" the graph so that
> the final graphic has x on the horizontal axis and y on the vertical axis.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> many thanks,
> David E. Burmaster
>
> deb at Alceon.com
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>
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