Coloring your curves

The following figure is a simple graph of different powers of x, color-coded. The colors, which can be seen in the electronic version of the graph, appear here as different shades of gray:

Coloring your curves

How to do it…

To produce the previous figure, enter the following sequence of commands at the gnuplot interactive prompt. Alternatively, save them in a file and use the command gnuplot --persist <file>, substituting your filename for <file>. The --persist flag tells gnuplot to keep the plot window open after executing the script. (This script, as well as all the others, are provided with this book as a file named after the recipe.)

set term x11 ...

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