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14 years ago Migrated from SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/p/pgfplots/feature-requests/11/#1883 Author: ludewich Timestamp: 2010-03-30 17:55:54
Hi Soren, thank you for your interest in pgfplots and the feature request!
I guess it might be possible to add such charts, especially since the next release will a public API for adding new plot types anyway.
What I am not completely sure about is whether automated tick placement will work as for log plots or linear plots... maybe after some additions here. The emphasize is on "automated", a manual placement should not pose great problems.
But the main problem is that I am not familiar with such visualizations at all - perhaps you can mail me at ludewich@users.sourceforge.net and provide example data + output?
Best regards
Christian
Migrated from SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/p/pgfplots/feature-requests/11/ Author: *anonymous Timestamp: 2010-03-30 11:49:40
Hi,
First of all, thank you for creating this wonderful plotting library!
As an electrical engineer, it would be really useful to be able to create Smith Chart plots, similar to the MatLab plots that are displayed on this page:
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/rf/f2-999699.html
The Smith Chart is essentially a unit circle, with a grid that is drawn as a conformal mapping of the entire complex plane into the unit circle. I found a quick guide on how to draw the smith chart here:
http://www.siart.de/lehre/smithdgr.pdf
I imagine it could be implemented as an axis environment similar to "loglogaxis", where traces could be added as series of points in the range [-1..1 ; -1..1].
Would it be possible to include such functionality in a future release?
Søren.