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6 Plots and Animations

Maple can generate many forms of plots, allowing you to visualize a problem and further understand concepts.

 • Maple accepts explicit, implicit, and parametric forms to display 2-D and 3-D plots and animations.
 • Maple recognizes many coordinate systems.
 • All plot regions in Maple are active; therefore, you can drag expressions to and from a plot region.
 • Maple offers numerous plot options, such as axis styles, title, colors, shading options, surface styles, and axis ranges, which give you complete control to customize your plots.

For a reference to the types of plots available in Maple, see the Plotting Guide.

6.1 In This Chapter

Section

Topics

Creating Plots - Interactive and command-driven methods to display 2-D and 3-D plots

 • Interactive Plot Builder
 • Context Panel
 • The plot and plot3d Commands
 • The plots Package
 • Multiple Plots in the Same Plot Region

Customizing Plots - Methods for applying plot options before and after a plot displays

 • Interactive Plot Builder Options
 • Context Panel Options
 • The plot and plot3d Command Options

Analyzing Plots - Plot analyzing tools

 • Point Probe
 • Rotate
 • Pan
 • Zoom

Representing Data - Templates for visual representation of your data

 • The Live Data Plots Palette

Creating Animations - Interactive and command-driven methods to display animations

 • Interactive Plot Builder
 • The plots[animate] Command
 • The plot3d[viewpoint] Command

Playing Animations - Tools to run animations

 • Animation Context Bar

Customizing Animations - Methods for applying plot options before and after an animation displays

 • Interactive Plot Builder Animation Options