Michael Peters wrote: > Moritz Lenz wrote: > >> the graphs on http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_graphs/start/8 >> become pretty useless as soon as I select a larger time span (say, 5 >> days): instead of displaying data, it mostly displays a gray area of >> fancy 3D shadows. > > I agree that the shadows can cause a problem. But I think the main point is > that there is a lot of > data. Just for the months of August there were 1,638 smoke reports submitted. > It's hard to usefully > cram 1,638 into a 600 pixel area.
Aye. But I think 5 days is not too much to ask for ;-) >> Maybe the graph generation could be tweaked, or a simple, traditional 2D >> lines plot could be used instead? > > I could add the option for 2D graphs as well. But I'm not sure that will be > enough for more than a > couple of days worth of data. Maybe I need to find something smarter than > GD::Graph for large data > sets. Any ideas? Piping to gnuplot usually works very well for me. Thinking more of it, I think a scatter plot would be better for a graph with many discontinuities. (800 data points on 600 pixels are no problem for gnuplot, haven't tried with much more yet, but I think it scales well). Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/
