Making an impulse plot
Impulse or stick plots are another way to represent discrete points. If the line thickness is made large, the impulse plot can be made to look like a bar chart.
How to do it…
The following script illustrates the use of the impulses style:
set samples 30 plot [0:2*pi] sin(x) with impulses lw 2
How it works…
The first command set the number of points used to sample or plot the function. The plot command tells gnuplot to use the impulse style, which draws a line from the x-axis to each y value; the thickness of the line is given by lw 2.
There's more…
A "stem plot" is sometimes used in electrical engineering. It is similar to the impulse ...
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