Scatter Plot (Marker Trace): Order of marker/dot plotting?
| gseaborn | August 19, 2008 - 08:34 | ||
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Hi, I'm creating a scatter plot (maker trace) that colors the markers depending on a given Z-value according to a colorscale. My problem is that although the points are defined by XYZ coordinates, they are not sorted by Z value. Because of this, the markers are not plotted in order from low Z-value to high Z-value. Many of the markers inevitably overlap, but I would like to have those of higher Z-value plotted on top of those of lower Z-value so that the view of markers with high Z-value is never obscured by those with lower z-value. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a way for me to make it so that the markers are appended to the graph in the order of lowest Z-value to highest Z-value. Either that or a way for the markers to get sorted by Z-value once they have been appended to the graph. The way I'm graphing is by using a procedure file I've created to import the data from files, and then graph the data. Thanks very much |
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Sort the data sets by Z value? See the Sort operation.
John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
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