Gnuplot: Plotting trajectories of multiple objects from one data file

Question

I have a program that outputs the position of each particle from a many particle system. The output data is such that each row is a subsequent time step, and the columns have the position (and velocity)

Eg.

    t=1 x1 y1 vx1 vy1 x2 y2 vx2 vy2 ...etc
    t=2 x1 y1 vx1 vy1 x2 y2 vx2 vy2 ...etc
    ...etc

When I had a few particles I could plot each trajectory using commands of the following form

    plot "output.dat" u 2:3 w lines, "output.txt" u 6:7 w lines, ...etc

However, I now have almost 100 particles. How can I set up a script to plot the trajectory of each particle, knowing that the column for xi is 2+4*i and yi is 3+4*i?

Alexander · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-01 18:51:44Z

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The solution (since version 4.4):

plot for [i=1:100] 'output.dat' u (column(2+4*i)):(column(3+4*i))

edited Mar 1, 2013 at 18:51

Alexander

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answered Mar 12, 2012 at 20:19

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