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    I wouldn't be concerned about plotting too much data. Kst just eats
    it up. I regularly plot multiple channels with x1000 over sampling
    at high sample rates and I never have a problem. <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/02/2016 10:53 AM, Barth
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      <div dir="ltr">Only non-redundant lines ever get sent to the
        graphics card, so that really won't matter.
        <div>How many points are you plotting?</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Daniel
          Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:dmiller@vitalconnect.com" target="_blank">dmiller@vitalconnect.com</a>></span>
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            <div dir="ltr">huh... yeah, that might well work!!  It'll be
              plotting three times as much data as it really is
              receiving, but what the heck, we have Nvidia graphics
              cards... 
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              <div>Thanks, I'll try that!!</div>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:48
                    PM, Ben Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a
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                      <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Dan,<br>
                        <br>
                        It sounds like each channel has its own sample
                        rate (or is asynchronous).<br>
                        <br>
                        In cases like this I use the channel with the
                        highest sample rate for the time stamp. Then for
                        all other channels I use the old value until it
                        is updated.<br>
                        <br>
                        For example<br>
                        <br>
                        timestamp, data_x, data_y, data_z<br>
                        0, 10, 10, 10<br>
                        1, 20, 10, 10<br>
                        2, 30, 20, 10<br>
                        3, 40, 20, 10<br>
                        4, 50, 30, 10<br>
                        5, 60, 30, 10<br>
                        6, 70, 40, 10<br>
                        7, 80, 40, 10<br>
                        8, 90, 50, 10<br>
                        9, 100, 50, 20<br>
                        <br>
                        In this case data_x updates at the fast rate,
                        data_y updates at half of data_x and data_y
                        updates at 1/10 of data_x.<br>
                        <br>
                        Would this work in your case?<br>
                        <br>
                        Regards, Ben
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                            <div>On 4/02/2016 10:36 AM, Daniel Miller
                              wrote:<br>
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                              <div dir="ltr">hmmm... well, I prefer
                                lines to points in kst2; the plots with
                                points are sort of hard to utilize, but
                                I'll take a look at it and see what it
                                looks like.
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                                <div>Alternately, is there some way to
                                  input three data files, but have them
                                  plotted on one plot??  I haven't
                                  really seen that in the manual
                                  either...</div>
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                                <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3,
                                  2016 at 3:33 PM, Barth Netterfield <span
                                    dir="ltr"><<a
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                                    <div dir="ltr">As you have sort of
                                      figured out, kst's data source
                                      model will want you to have 3
                                      different ascii files in this
                                      case.
                                      <div><br>
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                                      <div>But, if you just want to plot
                                        points, and not lines, you can
                                        use NaN as your bad data marker.</div>
                                      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
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                                            <div>On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at
                                              6:30 PM, Daniel Miller <span
                                                dir="ltr"><<a
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                                              wrote:<br>
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                                                <div dir="ltr">I have
                                                  kst2 working with
                                                  single plot stream...
                                                  that works very
                                                  nicely.  At this
                                                  point, I'm using space
                                                  as separator between
                                                  fields.
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                                                  </div>
                                                  <div>However, we have
                                                    a couple of data
                                                    streams which
                                                    contain multiple
                                                    data (x, y, z); in
                                                    this situation, what
                                                    our data would look
                                                    like is ( timestamp,
                                                    data), but the data
                                                    would be one of {
                                                    data_x, data_y,
                                                    data_z }.  In other
                                                    words, the data
                                                    stream that I
                                                    receive from the
                                                    hardware, delivers
                                                    data_x, data_y,
                                                    data_z in separate
                                                    messages, with
                                                    different
                                                    timestamps.</div>
                                                  <div><br>
                                                  </div>
                                                  <div>I want kst2 to
                                                    read this ascii data
                                                    file and plot 3
                                                    separate graphs on
                                                    one plot.  </div>
                                                  <div>I'm a little
                                                    confused about how
                                                    to do this, though; </div>
                                                  <div><br>
                                                  </div>
                                                  <div>for example, say
                                                    I have a line with
                                                    data for data_z;
                                                    this will look
                                                    something like:</div>
                                                  <div>timestamp data_z </div>
                                                  <div>however, I want
                                                    one file to contain
                                                    data for all three
                                                    streams, so I'm
                                                    guessing I need to
                                                    have empty fields
                                                    for the not-relevant
                                                    data; maybe
                                                    something like:</div>
                                                  <div>timestamp
                                                    unused_x unused_y
                                                    data_z</div>
                                                  <div>timestamp
                                                    unused_x data_y
                                                    unused_z</div>
                                                  <div>etc...</div>
                                                  <div><br>
                                                  </div>
                                                  <div>So first off, I
                                                    probably have to use
                                                    a different
                                                    separator rather
                                                    than space for
                                                    separator; but even
                                                    with comma, I still
                                                    have a problem; for
                                                    example:</div>
                                                  <div><br>
                                                  </div>
                                                  <div>timestamp, 0, 0,
                                                    data_z</div>
                                                  <div>timestamp, 0,
                                                    data_y, 0</div>
                                                  <div><br>
                                                  </div>
                                                  <div>Except that in
                                                    some cases, 0 is
                                                    valid data; I
                                                    *think* I need some
                                                    way to represent
                                                    "invalid data" in
                                                    the unused fields.</div>
                                                  <div><br>
                                                  </div>
                                                  <div>Is this
                                                    understandable?? 
                                                    How do I handle
                                                    this??</div>
                                                  <div>Dan Miller</div>
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