Re: Plotting periodic properties on a spreadsheet/graph

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, thomas pfeiffer wrote:

> ... The graph I would like to get would resemble a topographic
> map. Somewhere, sometime, someone was talking about such a
> graph and I thought they were using excel. Is excel capable of
> doing such a plot or do I need different spreadsheet/graphing
> software.

I use Excel 98 on the Mac and do this by selecting the data to be
plotted, clicking on the "chart wizard" and selecing the "surface"
chart type and "contour" sub type.

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm