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BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL
StreamScale
StreamScale
is an option to StreamPlot, ListStreamPlot, and related functions that determines the length and arrowhead size of streamlines that are drawn.
Details
- StreamPlot and related functions effectively find streamlines by following the flow of the vector field. StreamScale determines how the streamlines found should be segmented for display.
- Each streamline segment is rendered as an Arrow, with its own arrowhead.
- The following settings can be given for StreamScale:
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Automatic automatically determine streamline scale None draw no arrows for streamlines Full use full streamlines without segmentation {seg,npts,aratio,sfun} use explicit specification of streamline scaling - The setting StreamScale->{seg, npts, aratio, sfun} allows explicit specification of how streamlines should be broken into segments, and how each segment should be scaled.
- The parameter seg is analogous to a Dashing specification for segments of a streamline. The following forms can be used:
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s equivalent to 
{s1,s2,...} successive line segments of length 
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, ..., with every other segment rendered and repeated cyclicallyLarge,Medium,Small,Tiny use large, medium, etc. segment lengths - The following settings can be used for npts to control the number of points rendered on each streamline segment:
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2 use two points, giving a straight streamline segment n use up to n points for each streamline segment All use all computed points for each streamline segment Automatic use an automatic method based on curve simplification - Every streamline segment effectively lies in a curved strip, with the arrowhead for the segment spanning one end of the strip.
- The following settings can be used for aratio to control the aspect ratio of the streamline strip:
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r absolute aspect ratio relative to the longest line segment Scaled[r] relative aspect ratio relative to each line segment Automatic automatic method based on the number points - After the length of segments is determined by seg, they can be rescaled by applying the function sfun. The following settings can be used:
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None do no rescaling func a function of x, y, vx, vy, Norm[{vx, vy}] Automatic automatically determine rescaling
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