Subject: plot2d failed to plot too many discrete points
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 07:22:24 -0700
On 5/12/2012 1:33 AM, XeCycle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to plot my computed numbers, roughly millions; then I
> found plot2d failed to plot these many points. Even, it failed
> to plot 65536 points --- should I check my compiler?
>
> I'm using SBCL on x86_64 Linux, and the plot function was called
> From Lisp.
>
> Or just tell me Maxima is not well suited to numeric computing,
> then convince me to try something else.
>
> I'm considering to output these numbers to a pipe and spawn the
> gnuplot myself, is it recommended?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
I have fairly nice computer display, and it has about 1.6 million
discrete pixels.
Plotting 2 million discrete non-overlapping points on it would not be
possible.
Perhaps you would find difficulties regardless of the plotting program.
RJF