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Fixed ratio plot

November 30th, 2010 | No Comments

For some plots it is nice to have exactly the same size for the given unit on both axes. In Fig.1 you could see the amplitude of a point source in a given space.

Wave field

Fig. 1 Image plot of a wave field given by the data file data (code to produce this figure)

The wave field of the point source is given by Green’s function:

G(\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{x}_\text{s},\omega) = \frac{1}{4\pi |\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{x}_\text{s}|} \; e^{i \frac{\omega}{c} |\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{x}_\text{s}|}

To apply the same sizes at both axes the set ratio command is the one to look after. A value of -1 will ensure that we will get the same sizes.

set ratio -1

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