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Gnuplot: How to fill up available space in interactive terminal?

I am making 3d plots with gnuplot, and I would like to be able to examine them closely. Here is what a typical image looks like when I use splot:

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As you can see, there is a great deal of white space all around this image (I have colored it in red pen so you can see what whitespace I am referring to. Next, I try to use Ctrl+MouseWheel to zoom in so that I can take a closer look, but instead of enlarging the image, this zooms the data set inside of the rectangular cuboid viewing box. See the image below for an example of what I mean.

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So the data set is zoomed, but I still have all of that surrounding whitespace on all sides of the image. How can I zoom the image to fill the available space on my screen? I am using whatever the default terminal is when you do an splot from the gnuplot command line.

Solution

  • I figured it out. I was using set view equal xyz to get an orthographic projection with all of the axes scaled equally. This was causing the whitespace. You can still use it by scaling the size up with the command set view ,,2.0 e.g. for a double large scale. This makes the whole plot larger, bounding box and all.