Re: Questions about Graph output
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- Subject: [mg49235] Re: Questions about Graph output
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 02:26:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <ccis7v$4c7$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Yasvir Tesiram <yat at omrf.ouhsc.edu> wrote: > Here is a quick modification, > > plt2 = ContourPlot[Sin[x y], {x, -1, 1}, {y, -1, 1}, Contours -> {-.5, > .5}] > plt3 = ListContourPlot[Table[x^2 + y^2 + Random[Real, {-0.2, 0.2}], {x, > -2, 2, > 0.1}, {y, -2, 2, 0.1}]]; > > > Cases[InputForm[plt2], ContourGraphics[x__] -> x][[1]] > Cases[InputForm[plt3], ContourGraphics[x__] -> x][[1]] This does not give the points on the contour. For example plt = ContourPlot[x^2 + y^4, {x, -1, 1}, {y, -1, 1}, Contours -> {1/2, 3/4}] Cases[InputForm[plt], ContourGraphics[x__] -> x][[1]] == plt[[1]] so Cases is of no advantage here. If you first coerce the ContourGraphics object into a Graphics object, you can extract the points on each contour line using Cases: contourlinepts = Cases[Graphics[plt], Line[x__] -> x, Infinity] and, if you like, recover the (set of) contour lines as follows: Show[Graphics[Line /@ contourlinepts], AspectRatio->Automatic]; > On Jul 7, 2004, at 12:42 AM, Daohua Song wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > (1)I saw several lines about how to save a graph in the forum > > before, > > but i can not catch the point. how does it work? > > plt1 = Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2Pi}]; > > mydata = Flatten[Cases[plt1, Line[x__] -> x, Infinity], 1]; > > Export["mydata.txt", mydata, "CSV"]; > > > > (2) If i use implicit plot or contour plot, for example > > draw f[x,y]==Constant. My question is : > > how to save the curve to data points i can deal with(just like > > (1)), > > so i can work out the perimeter of this curve, area if it is closed > > etc. Note that, after conversion to polar coordinates (taking the first contour), polarpts = contourlinepts[[1]] /. {(x_)?NumberQ, y_} :> {ArcTan[x, y], Sqrt[x^2 + y^2]} you can use Interpolation to compute the perimeter and area. Here is the radius as a function of angle: r = Interpolation[Rest[polarpts]] The minimum and maximum angles are qmin = r[[1,1,1]] qmax = r[[1,1,2]] (Note that the interpolated curve is not closed -- this can and should be fixed to obtain more accurate answers.) Here is a parametric plot of the contour, to verify that it looks ok: ParametricPlot[r[q] {Cos[q], Sin[q]}, {q, qmin, qmax}, AspectRatio -> Automatic] We now compute the perimeter, NIntegrate[Sqrt[r[q]^2 + r'[q]^2], {q, qmin, qmax}, PrecisionGoal -> 4] and area 1/2 NIntegrate[r[q]^2, {q, qmin, qmax}, PrecisionGoal -> 4] using the standard formulae. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Abbott Phone: +61 8 9380 2734 School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 9380 1014 The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul
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- Questions about Graph output
- From: Daohua Song <ds2081@columbia.edu>
- Questions about Graph output