On 24-Oct-05 Barry Rowlingson wrote: > (Ted Harding) wrote: > >> For example -- though I'm not seriously saying I need this -- >> in a population study of faxes and rabbits surveyed over several >> years, one might wish to plot the Rabbit population using tiny >> rabbits as points, and foxes' heads for the Fox population. > > I cant help thinking now of the graphic shown on the 'Brass Eye' > comedy show on Animal Cruelty. Cue totally over-the-top 3d zooming > barchart with mad lighting effects, and voice-over: > > 'If you plot "number of animals abused" against "what makes people > cruel" versus "intelligence of either party", the pattern is so > unreadable you might as well draw in a chain of fox heads on sticks. > And if you do that, an interesting thing happens: the word "cruel" > starts flashing.' > > But seriously: you could load in an image with the pixmap package and > plot with that: > > library(pixmap) > x <- read.pnm(system.file("pictures/logo.ppm", package="pixmap")[1]) > plot(1:10,type='n') > for(i in 1:10){addlogo(x,px=c(i-.2,i+.2),py=c(i-.2,i+.2))} > > From there to a chain of fox heads on sticks is a small step. > > Baz
Baz, We know what your day job is. But what's the other one, I begin to wonder? Cheers, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 24-Oct-05 Time: 10:52:33 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html