Christopher Barker wrote:
> Eric Firing wrote:
>> Christopher Barker wrote:
>>> Has anyone used MPL to make stick plots? If so, can I borrow your code?
>> If no one volunteers anything, then I suggest using quiver(..., 
>> headlength=0, headwidth=0, headaxislength=0), together with 
>> quiverkey(...).  This will effectively give you a stick plot, with lots 
>> of flexibility.
> 
> Thanks, I was thinking that quiver() would get direction wrong, as the x 
> and y scales are in totally different units, but it looks like that's 
> not the case if you use the "angles" keyword:
> 
> angles: [‘uv’ | ‘xy’ | array]
>      With the default ‘uv’, the arrow aspect ratio is 1, so that if 
> U*==*V the angle of the arrow on the plot is 45 degrees CCW from the 
> x-axis. With ‘xy’, the arrow points from (x,y) to (x+u, y+v). 
> Alternatively, arbitrary angles may be specified as an array of values 
> in degrees, CCW from the x-axis.
> 
>  >  It could be implemented more efficiently in any of
>> several ways, but it would take work to do it well.
> 
> I hope I'll get time to do that, but I don't really like quiver stick 
> plots anyway. I prefer plots (that I don't know the name of) that:
> 
> 
> Time is on the x axis
> 
> Magnitude of the velocity is the x axis
> 
> At each data point, there is a dot, and the direction is given with a 
> unit-length arrow originating at that dot, in the direction of the 
> observation.

I think this would be straightforward, using an ordinary plot command 
plus quiver.

Eric

> 
> I wrote a version of this a while back with the old MPL transforms 
> mechanism, but haven't taken the time to translate it.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 



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