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Re: Plot function at specific points

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  • Subject: [mg114136] Re: Plot function at specific points
  • From: Oliver Ruebenkoenig <ruebenko at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:55:19 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Istv=E1n Zachar wrote:

> Dear Bob,
>
> sadly, the variable 'data' is not available for me, only the
> InterpolationFunction, that was initially created for a multitude of
> coordinates.


Perhaps the InterpolatingFunctionAnatomy is of use?

tutorial/NDSolvePackages

Oliver

> That's why I cannot extract data directly, but has to specify a tricky
> "method to use for refining curves" inside Plot, i.e. the Method option.
> Even more sad is that NOTHING can be found about the possible values of
> Method in the documentation for either Plot or ParametericPlot. As it is
> the case usually with Method...
>
> Istvan
>
> On 2010.11.23. 13:51, Bob Hanlon wrote:
>> You can use InterpolationOrder to control the resolution.
>>
>> data ==== {{0, 1}, {1, 2}, {2, 3}, {3, 5},
>>     {4, 8}, {5, 5}, {6, 2}, {7, 1},
>>     {8, 1}, {9, 2}, {10, 4}};
>>
>> Partition[
>>    Table[
>>     Plot[
>>      Interpolation[data, InterpolationOrder ->  n][x],
>>      {x, 0, 10},
>>      PlotRange ->  {{0, 10}, {0, 9}},
>>      ImageSize ->  288],
>>     {n, 0, 3}],
>>    2] // Grid
>>
>> lowRes ==== Range[0, 10, 2];
>>
>> Show[
>>   ListLinePlot[{#, f@#}&  /@ lowRes,
>>    PlotStyle ->  Blue],
>>   Plot[
>>    Interpolation[data, InterpolationOrder ->  1][x],
>>    {x, 0, 10},
>>    PlotStyle ->  Red],
>>   PlotRange ->  {{0, 10}, {0, 9}},
>>   ImageSize ->  500,
>>   Epilog ->  {AbsolutePointSize[6], Green,
>>     Point[data]}]
>>
>>
>> Bob Hanlon
>>
>> ---- "Istv==C3==A1n Zachar"<zac at freemail.hu>  wrote:
>>
>> ====================================================
>> Dear Group,
>>
>> is there a method to plot an InterpolatingFunction at specific pointr
>> WITHIN Plot? I am of course aware that I can use ListPlot at any time,
>> though for certain reasons I have to stick with Plot. The main reason
>> is that I have a large amount of InterpolatingFunctions which I plot
>> with Plot as default, though at request I have to plot the same
>> InterpolatingFunctions at different resolutions. PlotPoints and
>> MaxRecursion is no good here, since lower resolution has to use a
>> certain set of x-values, defined prior to plotting. Obviously I want
>> to use the same Plot setup for both high and low-resolution cases.
>> Below is a toy modell of the problem:
>>
>> f ==== Interpolation[{{0, 1}, {1, 2}, {2, 3}, {3, 5}, {4, 8}, {5, 5}, {6=
,
>> 2}, {7, 1}, {8, 1}, {9, 2}, {10, 4}}];
>> lowRes ==== Range[0, 10, 2];
>> Plot[f[x], {x, 0, 10}, PlotRange ->  {{0, 10}, {0, 9}}]
>> ListLinePlot[{#, f@#}&  /@ lowRes, PlotRange ->  {{0, 10}, {0, 9}}]
>>
>> Again, what I want is to have a specific Plot call instead of the
>> ListLinePlot, but with same result as ListLinePlot.
>> Note that values of 'lowRes' may not correspond the exact x-
>> coordinates supplied to f.
>>
>> Is there a way to tell Plot explicitly the steps to use? Any idea?
>>
>> Istvan
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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