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louwee
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 Posted - 03/30/2005 : 01:55:54 AM
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Origin Version (Select Help-->About Origin): 7.0 SR0
Operating System:XP
I am trying to produce graphs like the bottom figure in the link below, i.E., fill area between curves which may intercross each other.
http://www.originlab.com/index.aspx?s=9&lm=+68&pid=819
However, I have several problems in dealing this:
(1)When I clicked the "Pattern" tab, the options for the border are
disabled. This option is important because I don't want to see the
starting and ending vertical lines on the graphs.
(2)The link says it is able to create blank area by filling the same
color as the background. I assume the background color is white.
But when I filled in white it washes out the major and minor ticks
on the x-axis.
Thank you for your suggestions in advance.
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Hideo Fujii
USA
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Posted - 03/30/2005 : 1:51:27 PM
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Hi louwee,
Are you using "Fill Area" graph type?
When I tried this type of graph, no vertival lines
at beginning and end didn't appear. Also, the curves
(controled by the Line tab in the Plot Details
dialog box)didn't block the axis as it was in front
of the plot.
Hope I didn't misunderstand what you intended.
--Hideo Fujii
OriginLab
P.S. For regular Line graph, in order to put the graph
back of axis, you can uncheck "Data on Top of Axes"
option in Display tab in layer-level Plot Details
dialog box.
Edited by - Hideo Fujii on 03/30/2005 2:00:13 PM |
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louwee
USA
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Posted - 03/30/2005 : 4:04:40 PM
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Hi, Hideo:
Thank you for the reply. Your P.S. message really helped my problem 2. But the problem of vertical projecting lines still remains. I used the fill area plots. However, it will prompt up another problem that is the borders of the filled area are diminished leaving only either upper bound or lower bound line legible. The border option in the fill area plot is still unavailable.
Thanks again and any other suggestion is appreciated.
louwee
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Hideo Fujii
USA
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Posted - 03/30/2005 : 6:02:15 PM
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Hi louwee,
> another problem that is the borders of the filled area are
> diminished leaving only either upper bound or lower bound
> line legible.
This behavior is probably what this graph type was designed
for. I don't know the authour's method in the article,
but one easy (too easy?) solution is to create extra column
which contains the same data to the original column which
didn't come up to the Fill Area (upper/lower) border. Then,
you can just include this extra (Y) dataset as an Line plot
to the same graph. Maybe other people have better idea...
--Hideo Fujii
OriginLab
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Laurie
USA
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Posted - 03/31/2005 : 5:09:46 PM
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Hi Louwee,
As Hideo points out, it looks like the "Fill Area Under Curve" option for line plots doesn't have an option to control the color of the lines that drop down to the axis. As you point out, it would be an easy fix, if we enabled the Border group on the Pattern tab.
I will make this suggestion to our developers. The tracking id is QA-7577.
Thank you.
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greg
USA
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Posted - 04/01/2005 : 4:02:09 PM
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There is a workaround to this problem as follows:
Append the XY data from the second curve to the XY data from the first curve.
Make sure the data from the first curve is sorted in Ascending X and the data from the second curve is sorted in Descending X.
Plot this combined data as a Line graph
Open Plot Details and check "Fill Area Under Curve" and select "Inclusive broken by missing values" from the drop-down.
You will be able to edit the border, fill color, pattern and pattern fill color as you wish. If you fill with a color, this dataset should appear first in Layer Contents so that additional data draws on top.
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Problem with "Fill Area Under Curve"