Re: Plotting on mac

[Ben Abbott]

On May 9, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Dr. Krishna Mohan, T. R wrote:

> I have a simple m file which plots my data in different shades. When I run 
> this on my Mac Desktop (Lion), I get blank plot windows opening up but no 
> plot appearing. I also get gnu plot general help read me displayed. What is 
> going on? The file in question is:
> 
> close all;
> clear all;
> figure;
> %
> k2 = 176259;
> brghtpar=0.5;
> %
> s=load('-ascii','binke.dat');
> a=s(1:k2,1:100);
> cmap=contrast(a);
> newmap=brighten(cmap,brghtpar);
> imagesc(a)
> colormap(newmap)
> %
> 
> Simple plots are working and, so, Octave and gnu plots are linked up.
> 
> KM.

The image you're trying to display is 176259x100 pixels.

This is creating a problem for gnuplot (not gnu plot, as gnuplot is not a GNU 
project).

If you reduce the image size by ...

        a = s(1:100:k2,1:100);

... then it should work.

Ben