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Re: Joining points of ListPlot

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  • Subject: [mg117351] Re: Joining points of ListPlot
  • From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:25:14 -0500 (EST)

This seems to do it perfectly in this case:

curves = Riffle[Table[{x, Sin[x]}, {x, 0., 2*Pi, .1}],
    Table[{x, Cos[x]}, {x, .05, 2*Pi, .1}]];
mesh = Max@Abs@Differences@curves[[All, 1]]
ListPlot[curves]

0.05

Clear[f]
f[{a_, b_}, {c_, d_}] := Boole[Abs[a - c] < .1] + Norm[{a, b} - {c, d}]
clusters =
   FindClusters[curves, 2, DistanceFunction -> f,
    Method -> "Agglomerate"];
Show[ListPlot@curves, Table[Graphics@Line@c, {c, clusters}]]

But here's a BUG:

2 mesh == .1

True

Clear[f]
f[{a_, b_}, {c_, d_}] :=
  Boole[Abs[a - c] < 2 mesh] + Norm[{a, b} - {c, d}]
clusters =
   FindClusters[curves, 2, DistanceFunction -> f,
    Method -> "Agglomerate"];
Show[ListPlot@curves, Table[Graphics@Line@c, {c, clusters}]]

(with VERY different clusters).

Bobby

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:06:08 -0500, Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>  
wrote:

> Antonio Mezzacapo wrote:
>> Thank you for answering.
>>
>> I don't have any functional form of this points. I have only this array  
>> of
>> points. Points on this array should be distributed *like* two crossing
>> functions as Sin[x] and Cos[x], but I don't know the functional form of
>> these functions.
>>
>> All that I have is an array of points!
>> Because of the fact that these points distribute on the x-y cartesian  
>> plane
>> like two crossing functions, I cannot use "joined->true" because it  
>> gives me
>> strange results.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Antonio
>> [...]
>
> One approach is to use Nearest to find candidate neighbors, then apply a
> slope test to remove some contenders. For this purpose i adapted some
> code from a November thread.
>
> Our example:
>
> curves = Riffle[Table[{x, Sin[x]}, {x, 0., 2*Pi, .1}],
>     Table[{x, Cos[x]}, {x, .05, 2*Pi, .1}]];
>
> ListPlot[curves]
>
> Here is the code, with no attempt made to package it nicely. It gives an
> imperfect rendering in this example. I think one could make more
> judicious of Nearest and also improve on the slope test, in a way that
> would give a more accurate picture of the two curves. But this is
> certainly a reasonable start.
>
> Needs["GraphUtilities`"];
>
> curvesmodif = curves /. {x_, y_} :> {x, y};
> nf = Nearest[curvesmodif];
> neighbors =
>    Map[{#, Complement[nf[#, 4], {#}]} &,
>      curvesmodif] /. {x_Real, y_Real} :> {x, y};
>
> Do[{elem, trio} = neighbors[[i]];
>   slopes = Map[(elem[[2]] - #[[2]])/(elem[[1]] - #[[1]]) &, trio];
>   slopes = Join[slopes, {slopes[[1]]}];
>   slopediffs = Differences[slopes];
>   bestpair = Ordering[Abs[slopediffs], 1][[1]];
>   neighbors[[i]] =
>    Sort[{elem, trio[[Mod[bestpair, 3, 1]]],
>      trio[[Mod[bestpair + 1, 3, 1]]]}];
>   , {i, Length[neighbors]}]
>
> graph = Union[
>     Flatten[Map[{#[[1]] -> #[[2]], #[[2]] -> #[[3]], #[[2]] -> #[[1]], \
> #[[3]] -> #[[1]]} &, neighbors]]];
>
> Do[elem = graph[[i]];
>   If[! MemberQ[graph, Reverse[elem]], graph[[i]] = Null];,
>   {i, Length[graph]}]
> graph = graph /. Null :> Sequence[];
>
> pieces = WeakComponents[graph]
>
> plots = Map[ListPlot[#, Joined -> True] &, pieces];
>
>
> Daniel Lichtblau
> Wolfram Research
>


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