How to | Get Coordinates for Points in a Plot
| Mathematica's interactive graphics capabilities let you determine the coordinates of a single point. You can also get arbitrary sequences of points and paths, and analyze and manipulate the coordinate lists like any other data in Mathematica. | |
This is a selection of examples from the complete
"How to" screencast. »With the
Get Coordinates tool you can query, copy, and paste coordinates from any graphic or plot.
First, open the palette from the menu:
In the palette, choose the
Get Coordinates tool:
When you hover over a graphic, the coordinates of the point under the cursor are displayed next to the cursor. Clicking a point marks the point in the graphic for later copying. Similarly, dragging marks a set of points along the path:
After clicking or dragging points, use to put the coordinates of the points on the clipboard:
Here, was used to paste in the selected coordinates:
To mark a rectangular area on a plot, do
Alt+Drag on Windows or
Option+Drag on Macintosh. You can resize a marked area using the resize handles. Clicking and dragging on a side of a rectangle will move it without resizing.
You can see here that two rectangular areas were drawn, and the resize handle appeared when the cursor was positioned over a corner:
Here, the coordinate values of the rectangles were copied and pasted in as before:
In the pasted data, each rectangle is represented by a list of the minimum and maximum coordinate values of the rectangle.
