Hello,

Any tips, insight, pointers, et al would be most appreciated. I
have spent weeks of hundreds of ideas (mine, research, or
combination of) would be most appreciate.

In essence what I am doing is offsetting each line of time using x:y+TimePerLine*yoffset via a scaling factor of yoffset to plot in
one graph no multiplot for each hour TimePerLine (3600 seconds) to
start. Hence the two plot lines I am trying to find way to plot
with goal of seismic helicorder with gnuplot:

plot '<cat' using ($1)-TimeSecondsGraphStart :($2)+ (VerticalSensitivity/24*16)+Offset with lines linestyle 9

plot '<cat' using ($1)-TimeSecondsGraphStart-3600 :($2)+ (VerticalSensitivity/24*12)+Offset with lines linestyle 9 set

The reason for the "($1)-TimeSecondsGraphStart" is because "set
xrange [0:TimeSecondsDurationGraphLine]" as the input data
timestamp in "%S" is actual time of data. I did not pre-process the
data timestamps of data sent to gnuplot relative to zero. Data is
mostly less than 0.003, often less than 0.0001.

I am skipping all but the two lines (two plot statements) of
gnuplot code in my gnuplot source as these are the two lines at
heart of my challenges I am working with test in order to achieve a
helicorder with gnuplot.

If both lines are as above the one, the first plot will plot as
expected, and second will say ".... line foo: warning: Skipping
data file with no valid points".

Same ".... line foo: warning: Skipping data file with no valid
points"" occurs if I continue first plot line to second line
without using "plot" on second line.

If I comment out one of these plot statements then each respective
plot statement creates a graph with the correct data at the correct
vertical displacement. In this case on the 16 or 12 vertical
displacement. For the moment I am using hard coded 3600 for
seconds per each vertical line, 24 for hours of graph period, and
12/16 as respective vertical line displacement position. The code
already has variables for these specific or calculated from base
values, but I hardcoded to ensure the time segment calculation is
correct and to ensure the vertical calculation position is very
clear for this two line plot test before I generate likely via
for/do for the variable specified graph duration, time per line,
vertical displacement.


Background
==========

I have been using gnuplot for years to plot various csv data code I
write generates on 24/7/365 basis. I am stumped in how to achieve
with gnuplot how to create what is known in seismic domain as a
helicorder. I have tried many many ideas of my own and many
variations of ideas or variations of those ideas via weeks of
searching wide variety of sources and search venues.

Before I attempted this I did the really simple plot of 24 hours of
data as single line for full 24 hours on graph that is easy to do.
With that single line graph for purposes of testing I add a fixed
value to the y and depending on of plus or minus value the graph
would shift towards top or bottom of graph. I also did tests on
same single plot by adding +- value to x and graph shifted left or
right per value with of course no data plotted on side of data
opposite shift value as would expect.

I will state upfront many will suggest multiplot, but other than
one special case of multiplot I will expalin that I tried is not
appropriate as the data of each multiplot is contained within the
limits of that multiplot, i.e. the graph data cannot exceed the
borders unless I have missed in my weeks of searching not to be
case.

One link with various examples of helicorders and why as far as I
can determine multiplot will not allow a gnuplot like helicorder to
transcend many horizontal (time) segments:

<https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/seismograms/examples.php>

For the moment my concern is how to graph multiple lines such that
will look like the example helicorders.

For those that want to have copy of data bear in mind the data for
a 24 hour helicorder in generally 30-60 million million lines of
data depending on if 100 or 300 samples a second for three axis of
Z, N, and E for about 0.5TB data before compressing. The data
format in simplest form for one channel is in format of "%s.%N,
%e". Unlike most seismic recording systems that output the ADC
counts for the input ADC voltage my ADC code outputs voltage. I
use voltage so if the ADC changes (and will as I work on code for
better ADCs) the same instrument will record in the data file same
data such that one does not need to "scale" count data due to
different +- input sensitivity range ratings, and/or PGA settings
ADCs have (varies from +-0.6V to +-10V) then layered difference if
ADC is fully differential, bipolar differential, or single ended.
There are other variables related to AC and instrument, but noted
are most common.

The ADC currently being used is set to +-0.256V as that is most
sensitive for ADC. ADC code is outputting voltage based on ADC
sensitivity. The counts from ADC is converted by code for ADC with
respect to ADC sensitivity.

What I am trying to do is plot one data file of 24 hours of data
into 24 lines of one hour plots to start. Once I have this
accomplished then I will use core variables such as period of time
in hours (common for 24, and 12, but some use 36) helicorder is to
cover, time in minutes for each line of helicorder (typically 60,
30, and 15 are used all quite commonly). One side of helicorder
will have minute start for data line and maybe date as well. Other
side of graph may have local time, end time in munutes of line, or
vertical scaling (such a nm of movement information). For the
purposes of this question I am only interested in how to plot one
data file split by uniform time length segment of data across
multiple lines of time, i.e. ignore how to address vertical
labelling of vertical part of helicorder.

To cover the one special case of multiplot some of my research
results suggested if I placed "set multiplot" before and "set
nomultiplot" after the set of plot statements that would achieve
the desired result. Sadly the exact results as stated without the
related multiplot statements occurred. I cannot recall how many
ideas I tried that were simply not acceptable to gnuplot at all,
but tried just in case even if to me made no sense or would not
work just to be sure.



John L. Males
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
03 July 2024 18:07 +0000 UTC
03 July 2024 14:07 -0400 EDT


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