Re: Plotting data with Excel


Bob wrote:
> "Rune Allnor" <allnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1138722531.640861.235120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi there.
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > What I want to know is if it is possible at all to have excel do
> > something like IMAGESC in matlab. That is, take a NxM
> > matrix and make an image where the color of pixel (n,m)
> > is somehow related to the numerical value in cell (n,m).
> >
> > The data consist of N time series, each M samples long.
> > I want to plot them either as intensity-coded images, or
> > as vertical traces, "waterfall transposed" so to speak.
> >
> > Any suggestions and comments are appreciated.
> >
> > Rune
>
> Hi Rune,
> I would just write a quick BMP file utility to take your raw data and
> generate an un-compressed windows bitmap file. With a command line interface
> for parameters (N and M, for example) or with that info embedded in a header
> to your raw data files, the actual data-to-bmp code is trivial. Customer
> could then use windows paint or some such to view it. The nice thing about
> BMP is it supports un-compressed images so you don't even have to do RLE of
> LZW, just construct the header and spit out the pixels (with whatever
> data-to-color algorithm you want). Google "BMP file format".
>
> Bob

Thanks. That's a brilliant idea. At first glance, it ought to be
possible to
write a stand-alone data2BMP converter in a day or so.

Rune

.

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