Stupid newbie question!
I want to be able to plot two or more functions on a single graph. For example, I wish to plot $x^2$ and $2^x$, say in red and blue, such that a person can readily see, with their eyes, where the two curves intersect.
Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to make this happen. It seems like it would be a common teaching device but how to make it work?
Any assistance welcomed!
Okay, answering my own question, in case someone else got confused like I did:
p1 = plot(x^2,(x,0,5),rgbcolor=hue(0.4)) p2 = plot(2^x,(x,0,5),rgbcolor=hue(0.6)) show(p1+p2, axes=true)
Here the function of the '+' operator seems to mean "and" rather than "plus".
You shouldn't even need the axes=True part, I think. If you look at
sage: plot?
you'll see that + is the standard way to add plots.
It sounds like you might want to plot things in a certain order of objects on top of each other; here, the zorder option should often work (though there might be some graphics primitives where it doesn't). Like so:
sage: P = plot(sin,0,pi,zorder=50)
sage: Q = plot(cos,0,pi,color='red',zorder=51)
sage: P+Q
Here, red is on top (like in a plot with no zorder)
sage: Q = plot(cos,0,pi,color='red',zorder=40)
sage: P+Q
Here, blue is on top.
Note that the behavior without zorder set is sometimes a little enigmatic - I don't know whether P+Q and Q+P always plot the second one on top if you don't use zorder above, since for certain objects that doesn't seem to happen; for these plot types, apparently that does happen, though.
This apparently does work. See this Sage cell doing sum([plot(x^n) for n in range(10)]), which I guess is what you are asking about. If you have an example that doesn't, probably start a new question for that.
Asked: 2010-10-26 18:40:14 +0100
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Last updated: Oct 27 '10
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