Drawing Commands For Use In Programming - HP 49g+ User Manual

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Example 3 – A polar plot. Enter the following program:
«
RAD {PPAR EQ} PURGE
'1+SIN(θ)' STEQ
{ θ 0. 6.29} INDEP
'Y' DEPND
POLAR
{ (0.,0.) {.5 .5}
"x" "y"} AXES
–3.
3. XRNG
–.5
2.5 YRNG
ERASE DRAW DRAX LABEL
PICTURE
»
Store the program in variable PLOT3. To run it, press J, if needed, then
press @PLOT3.
These exercises illustrate the use of PLOT commands in programs. They just
scratch the surface of programming applications of plots. I invite the reader to
try their own exercises on programming plots.

Drawing commands for use in programming

You can draw figures in the graphics window directly from a program by
using commands such as those contained in the PICT menu, accessible by
„°L@PICT@.
The functions available in this menu are the following.
Press L to move to next menu:
Obviously, the commands LINE, TLINE, and BOX, perform the same
operations as their interactive counterpart, given the appropriate input.
These and the other functions in the PICT menu refer to the graphics windows
whose x- and y-ranges are determined in the variable PPAR, as demonstrated
above for different graph types. The functions in the PICT command are
described next:
Start program
Change to radians, purge vars.
Store 'f(θ)' into EQ
Set indep. variable to 'θ', with
range
Set dependent variable to 'Y'
Select POLAR as the plot type
Set axes information
Set x range
Set y range
Erase & draw plot, axes, and labels
Recall graphics screen to stack
End program
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