PLSTRING3(3plplot)

💜 PLSTRING3 — plot a glyph at the specified 3D points (PLplot API, bestie) 💜

okay so real talk, this page is PLSTRING3(3plplot) from the PLplot API and it's genuinely so useful, let me put you on ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

plstring3 — plot a glyph at the specified 3D points. yup, that's the whole vibe 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plstring3(n, x, y, z, string)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what it does is: it plots a glyph at the specified 3D points. iconic behavior honestly 💅

And yes, it supersedes plpoin3(3plplot) — because many[!] more glyphs are accessible with plstring3(3plplot). like, many. the [!] is doing so much work there and it deserves it 👑

Set up the call to this function similar to what is done for plline3(3plplot). The glyph itself is specified with a PLplot user string. and here's the cute bit — that user string is not actually limited to one glyph, so it's possible (but not normally useful) to plot more than one glyph at the specified points with this function. so technically you could but like…… why would you 😭

As with plmtex(3plplot) and plptex(3plplot), the user string can contain FCI escapes to determine the font, UTF-8 code to determine the glyph, or else PLplot escapes for Hershey or unicode text to determine the glyph. fontie choose-your-own-adventure fr fr 🧚

Redacted form: plstring3(x, y, z, string)

This function is used in example 18. (go look at example 18, it ate 🔥)

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🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

• n (PLINT(3plplot), input) — number of points in the x, y, and z vectors. like the headcount for your point girlies 💖
• x (PLFLT_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a vector containing the x coordinates of the points.
• y (PLFLT_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a vector containing the y coordinates of the points.
• z (PLFLT_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a vector containing the z coordinates of the points. yes it's 3D, we're so fancy now 🦋
• string (PLCHAR_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a UTF-8 character string containing the glyph(s) to be plotted at each of the n points. points.

no cap, the original manpage literally says "points." twice at the end there and I refuse to edit her. she's perfect. we stan a typo queen 💀🫶

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. an absolute group chat of legends, genuinely 🌟

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php. go read it, it's giving main character energy 📚✨

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