GPL(3NCARG)

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✨ GPL (Polyline) — the NCAR Graphics one, not the license, bestie ✨

okay so real talk: this GPL lives in the NCAR GRAPHICS manual, section 3NCARG. It is not the GNU General Public License. Sorry to the girlies who came here looking for copyleft 💀

💖 NAME 💖

GPL (Polyline) — this output primitive draws line segments connecting a sequence of user-specified coordinate pairs. Basically: you hand it points, it connects the dots. Iconic behavior, honestly. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

CALL GPL (N, X, Y)

🦋 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void gpolyline(const Gpoint_list *point_list);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

  • N — (Integer, Input) — the number of points in the line you're drawing. Heads up: N must be larger than one. Like, a one-point line isn't a line, bestie, that's just a dot. 🫶
  • X (N) — (Real Array, Input) — the X coordinates of the N points that get connected by line segments. These are specified in world coordinates. 🌍
  • Y (N) — (Real Array, Input) — the Y coordinates of the N points that get connected by line segments. Also world coordinates, periodt. 🌍

🌈 USAGE 🌈

Read this part, fr fr. The coordinate pairs must be in world coordinates, not user coordinates. That's a whole different vibe.

And because of that (among other things 👀), the log scaling and mirror-imaging features you can get through the SET call — plus the SPPS functions for drawing lines — are not applicable here. They simply do not apply. No cap. 💀

👑 ACCESS 👑

To use GKS routines, load the NCAR GKS-0A library ncarg_gks. That's the whole assignment. Slay. ✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Online: gsln, gslwsc, gscr, gsplci, gqln, gqlwsc, gqplci, dashline, set, gpolyline

Hardcopy: User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics; NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version "The Use of X/Y Coordinates in NCAR Graphics" SCD User Document"

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

And that's the whole page, bestie — this one came from the UNIX manual, dated March 1993, filed under GPL(3NCARG) in the NCAR Graphics collection. Old-school but still eating. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶

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