This book is a guide to the presentation of data in visual format using IBM PCs and compatibles. It includes BASIC programs for graphics presentation of all major types of graph and chart, including 3-D. A special feature is the inclusion of colour plates illustrating the graphics that can be produced.
Author(s): P.H. Milne
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 179
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Glossary of abbreviations and technical terms used with microcomputers and presentation graphics......Page 9
1.2 PRESENTATION GRAPHICS......Page 14
1.2.3 Comparisons of components......Page 15
1.2.5 Other chart forms......Page 16
1.3 COMPUTER LANGUAGE......Page 17
1.4 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE......Page 18
1.6 SCREEN GRAPHICS......Page 19
1.8 PLOTTER GRAPHICS......Page 23
1.9 UTILITY ROUTINES......Page 24
1.9.5 Data printout routine......Page 25
1.9.10 Display graph text labels......Page 26
1.9.16 Error routines......Page 27
1.9.21 Plotter shading specification......Page 28
1.10.1 Keyboard data entry......Page 29
1.11 PLOTTER ROUTINES......Page 30
2.1.1 Line graphs......Page 32
2.1.2 Area charts......Page 33
2.2.1 Zigzag line graph......Page 34
Linear regression......Page 35
Power curve fit......Page 39
2.2.3 Curved line......Page 40
2.3.3 100% stacked area chart......Page 42
3.1.2 Bar charts......Page 44
3.2.1 Single column chart......Page 45
3.2.2 Multiple column chart......Page 46
3.2.4 100% stacked column chart......Page 48
3.3.1 Single bar chart......Page 49
3.3.3 Stacked bar chart......Page 50
3.3.4 100% stacked bar chart......Page 52
4.2.1 Single pie chart......Page 61
4.3.2 Shaded contours......Page 65
5.2.1 3-D column charts......Page 67
5.3.3 3-D open mesh......Page 69
5.3.4 3-D shaded mesh......Page 71
6.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 72
6.2 APPLICATIONS......Page 73
6.3 DESKTOP PUBLISHING......Page 74
6.4 SLIDE OR SCREENSHOW......Page 76
Appendices......Page 77
Graphics installation......Page 83
APPENDIX A.2: GRAPHICS SCREEN AND DISC SET UP COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 8000......Page 86
APPENDIX A.3: RECALL OF DATA FILE COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 8200......Page 87
APPENDIX A.5: RECALL OF TEXT FILE FROM DISC COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 8500......Page 88
APPENDIX A.6: DATA PRINTOUT ROUTINE COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 6000......Page 89
APPENDIX A.7: DATA ANALYSIS PRINTOUT ROUTINE COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 6500......Page 90
APPENDIX A.9: GRAPH AXES INTERVALS COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 7100......Page 91
APPENDIX A.10: SET UP GRAPHICS SCREEN TEMPLATE COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 7300......Page 92
APPENDIX A.12: DISPLAY GRAPH AXIS GRID COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 7600......Page 93
APPENDIX A.14: SET UP MONOCHROME SHADING COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 8600......Page 94
APPENDIX A.16: PROGRAM END COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 9500......Page 95
APPENDIX A.18: DATA SYMBOL DISPLAY COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 40000......Page 96
APPENDIX A.19: PLOTTER ROUTINES COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 50000......Page 98
APPENDIX A.21: PLOTTER LINE SPECIFICATION COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 51000......Page 99
APPENDIX A.23: GRAPHICS NUMBERS COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 55000......Page 100
Keyboard data entry......Page 103
Disc data recall......Page 106
Data generation......Page 110
APPENDIX A.28: HPGL GRAPHICS TEMPLATE COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 7300......Page 112
APPENDIX A.29: HPGL TEXT LABELS COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 7500......Page 113
APPENDIX A.31: HPGL BAR CHART TEMPLATE COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 7800......Page 114
APPENDIX A.32: HPGL DATA SYMBOL DISPLAY COMPUTER ROUTINE AT LINE 40000......Page 115
Zigzag line graph......Page 117
COMPUTER PROGRAM “GPLOT-B1”......Page 121
Linear regression......Page 122
COMPUTER PROGRAM “GPLOT-B2”......Page 127
Exponential and power curve fit......Page 129
APPENDIX B.4: CUBIC SPLINE COMPUTER PROGRAM “GRAPH-B4”......Page 134
Cubic spline......Page 135
COMPUTER PROGRAM “GPLOT-B4”......Page 142
APPENDIX B.5: AREA CHARTS COMPUTER PROGRAM “GRAPH-B5”......Page 143
COMPUTER PROGRAM “GPLOT-B5”......Page 148
Bar and column charts......Page 151
COMPUTER PROGRAM “GPLOT-C1”......Page 160
Pie charts......Page 164
COMPUTER PROGRAM “GPLOT-D1”......Page 168
Line contours......Page 170
COMPUTER PROGRAM “GPLOT-D2”......Page 176
Shaded contours......Page 180
3-D Column charts and 3-D Area charts......Page 183
Line profiles......Page 187
3-D line profiles......Page 190
COMPUTER PROGRAM “GPLOT-E3”......Page 193
3-D open mesh......Page 194
COMPUTER PROGRAM “GPLOT-E4”......Page 197
3-D shaded mesh......Page 198
Screen graphics menu......Page 201
APPENDIX F.2: PLOTTER MENU COMPUTER PROGRAM “PLT-MENU”......Page 207
References......Page 208
Index......Page 209
