11.52.32 logscale

set logscale { <axis> } [ <base> ]

The setting logscale causes an axis to be laid out with logarithmically, rather than linearly, spaced intervals. For example, issuing the command:

set log

would cause all of the axes of a plot to be scaled logarithmically. Alternatively, only one, or a selection of axes, can be set to scale logarithmically as follows:

set log x1 y2

This would cause the first horizontal and second vertical axes to be scaled logarithmically. Linear scaling can be restored to all axes using the command

set nolog

meanwhile the command

unset log

restores axes to their default scaling, as specified in any configuration file which may be present. Both of these commands can also be applied to only one or a selection of axes, as in the examples

set nolog x1 y2

and

unset log x1y2

Optionally, a base may be specified at the end of the set logscale command, to produce axes labelled in logarithms of arbitrary bases. The default base is 10.

In addition to acting upon any combination of -, - and -axes, the set logscale command may also be requested to set the c1, c2, c3, c4, t, u and/or v axes to scale logarithmically. The first four of these options affect whether the colors on color maps scale linearly or logarithmically with input ordinate values; see the set c<n>range command for more details. The final three of these options specifies whether parametric functions are sampled linearly or logarithmically in the variables t (one-dimensional), or u and v (two-dimensional); see the set trange, set urange and set vrange commands for more details.