how to draw a vertical line
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- Subject: [mg26056] how to draw a vertical line
- From: Robert Tartarin <tartarin at zeus.sc-eco.univ-nantes.fr>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:08:11 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
How to draw a vertical line ?
[question from lysov at paloma.spbu.ru]
I had the same problem and never quite understood why Wolfram did not
provide a clean solution within the Plot [ ] functions.
I know 3 solutions for a vertical line with x* as abcisse:
* Plot [ { {x*, maxyvalue}, {x*,minyvalue}}, {xdomain} ] .
This is obvious. Meanwhile, very often, it is necessary to define
maxyvalue and minyvalue according to the values of some other function on
the domain. Easy but heavy.
* Graphics [ Line [ { {x*, maxyvalue}, {x*,minyvalue} } ] and Show [ ]
,often combined with some other Plot command.
Same solution as above since Plot is converted into the Graphics primitive.
* Plot [ yfunction [x], {xdomain}, Gridlines - > { {x*} , None} ]
Here the Gridlines option is used as a bypass to draw a vertical line at
x*. You can easily plot a vertical (or several) and some other function
within a single Plot command. More important you don't need to define the
end points of the vertical since they are automatically adjusted by the
Gridlines option.
Robert Tartarin
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(University of Nantes, France)
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