<!-- $Id: ao_plot_content.html,v 1.5 2009/09/29 22:27:12 ingo Exp $ --><p> The data in an AO can be plotted using the <tt>iplot</tt> method.</p><p> The <tt>iplot</tt> method provides an advanced plotting interface for AOs which tries to make good use of all the information contained within the input AOs. For example, if the <tt>xunits</tt> and <tt>yunits</tt> fields of the input AOs are set, these labels are used on the plot labels.</p><p> In addition, <tt>iplot</tt> can be configured using a input <tt>plist</tt>. The following examples show some of the possible ways to use <tt>iplot</tt></p><div class="fragment"><pre> >> a1 = ao(plist(<span class="string">'tsfcn'</span>, <span class="string">'sin(2*pi*0.3*t) + randn(size(t))'</span>, <span class="string">'fs'</span>, 10, <span class="string">'nsecs'</span>, 20)) ----------- ao 01: a1 ----------- name: None data: (0,0.887479404587351) (0.1,-0.449797172615395) (0.2,0.479022102390939) ... -------- tsdata 01 ------------ fs: 10 x: [200 1], double y: [200 1], double dx: [0 0], double dy: [0 0], double xunits: [s] yunits: [] nsecs: 20 t0: 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000 ------------------------------- hist: ao / ao / SId: fromTSfcn ... $-->$Id: ao ... S mdlfile: empty description: UUID: 67d31c2f-8ee5-42ba-a96b-cfb288ecc9ea --------------------------------- >> a1.data -------- tsdata 01 ------------ fs: 10 x: [200 1], double y: [200 1], double dx: [0 0], double dy: [0 0], double xunits: [s] yunits: [] nsecs: 20 t0: 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000 -------------------------------</pre></div><p> Creates a time-series AO. If we look at the data object contained in this AO, we see that the <tt>xunits</tt>are set to the defaults of seconds [s].</p><p>If we plot this object with <tt>iplot</tt> we see these units reflected in the x and y axis labels.</p><div class="fragment"><pre> >> iplot(a1)</pre></div><img src="images/ao_iplot_eg1.png" alt="AO iplot eg1" border="3" width="600px"><p>We also see that the time-origin of the data (<tt>t0</tt> field of the <tt>tsdata</tt> class) is displayed as the plot title.</p>