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Here's how the 3-D graph used to illustrate Lagrange multipliers
(see Figure 3.11.1 on page ) was
created:
gnuplot> set term postscript color
gnuplot> set output "graph3d.eps"
gnuplot> set hidden3d
gnuplot> set contour
gnuplot> splot [-10:10][-10:10][-200:200]\
> -(x**2 + y**2)-10, x**2 + y**3
The first command, set term, sets the output to be a postscript file (with
color). The second command sets the name of the file. set
hidden3d tells gnuplot to let surfaces in the foreground block the
visibility of those that are behind them. To turn this option off,
and return to a simply wire frame rendering of your graphs, use the
command set nohidden3d. set contour tells gnuplot to draw
the contour lines on the plane beneath the graphs. The final
command creates the graph. If you leave off the first two commands,
gnuplot will draw the graph to a new window instead of writing it to
a file.
Frank Starmer
2004-05-19