Unusual Intensity Plot

Has anybody got any idea how I might re-create this Matlab plot in LabVIEW without spending days developing a 2D picture solution to the problem, which although would be most fun is unlikely to be received particularly well by the project manager!
It's fundamentally a circular intensity plots which probably has a particular name which unfortunately I don't know, and the only person who might know is off sick today.
Any thoughts greatfully received.
Thanks,
David
David Clark
CLA | CTA
CLA Design Ltd
Hampshire, England
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Here's a quick draft (LV2010). Of course it needs a bit more work.
You would just use a few more image tools to add the straight lines and the text to the image part.
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How do you update an intensity plot one element at a time?

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> I would like to use an intensity plot (or other control) to plot data
> collected from A/D channels. How do you get the Intensity plot to
> update one element at a time vs. row by row? Tips and suggestions
> greatly appreciated!
>
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Two questions:
1) Is there an intensity plot function that can be called from the mathscript window to display 2D arrays (such as a grayscale image), similar to the matlab function "image" or "imagesc"? The only options I saw were to display a 2D array on a 3D plot. Yes, I know the intensity plot is available in the variable display window, but I would really prefer a command-line option.
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How to make a 2d intensity plot?

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Have you tried a set up like this
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Scale x and y axis in intensity plot

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I need to plot a 2D array in intensity plot. But I need to change the displayed x and y axis in a different scale (i.e., they are actual single 1D arrays) instead of the index numbers of my 2D array. Any solution to this? Thanks.

Hi,
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Hi everybody out there.
My licensed Version of LV is 7.1 for windows XP.
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Intensity graps require the spacing in x and y to be uniform so labeling the axis ticks will not be trivial. Maybe you can substitute the axis of a hidden slide and set it to "text labels".
The cursor problem is much easier. Just read the cursor index and then index into your array of time values and display it. (Same for the Y axis, except you would need to use cursor position, because cursor index is not available here).
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Intensity plot

hi
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so i want to plot that data and should match with photo
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Hi kabariya,
when you need the same result as in your JPG you should use the very same data. Or you should atleast know more about your existing dataset...
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Here's a simple example. I did not change anything execpt to show the z-scale markers with 1 decimal digit (default is zero). This is just cosmetic.
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hi everybody ,
i need to plot a intensity graph which contains 2 x -axis. upper one and lower one it is possible.
Indrajit
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hi kelvin
thanks for your information . but is not working, can you do one thing you just send me a vi which is having a intensity graph with 2 x axis...................otherwise send me the image how i want to do it.plz
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Without manipulating the array, no it's not possible. I made an idea on the Idea exchange to fix this, I recommend you vote for it. Anti-Alias or Smooth Intensity Plot
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