Republic of the PhilippinesMINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF EDUCATIONFatima, General Santos City

Presented to:Dr. Ava Clare Marie O. Robles

Presented by:Juliemer B. Absalon

Limitations of Gnuplot

Objectives

To enumerate the limitations of Gnuplot

http://www.gnuplot.info/

a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms.source code is copyrighted but freely distributed.originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively.

What is GNUPLOT?

The gamma and bessel functions do not work for

complex arguments.

If a command line contains

a load command, then anything on

the line after the load

4#4filename5#5 is ignoredError bars are not

handled properly in polar/spherical coordinate plot

modes.

Floating point exceptions (floating

point number too large/small, divide by zero, etc.) may

occasionally be generated by user defined functions. 

http://web.mit.edu/gnuplot_v4.2/doc/htmldocs/node454.html

Limitations of GNUPLOT

The 'nohidden3d' option that is

supposed to exempt individual plots from the global property 'set

hidden3d' does not work for parametric

curves.

Coordinates specified as

"time" wrap at 24 hours, and

have a precision

limited to 1 second. This is in particular a limitation in using time format to

handle geographic

coordinates.

Only one color palette at a

time is active for any given

x11 plot window.

http://web.mit.edu/gnuplot_v4.2/doc/htmldocs/node454.html