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Plot

Draws a dataset in a Plotter, colored by value, a solid color or explicit RGBA, with options for colormap and limits, opacity (a number, a named profile or a custom @name curve), lines and tubes, points and spheres, the scalar bar and volume blending. The colors input appears while color_by is rgba. A stack's Stack Form draws it as points, splines, a reconstructed surface or its own mesh faces; surface is refused above 25,000 finite points, so thin a traced stack with Downsample first.

Inputs

Port	Accepts	Required	Description
`in`	dataset	required	The dataset to render
`colors`	primitive(array) dataset(stack)	optional, quiet: shown when relevant, connected or pinned	Explicit RGB/RGBA rows (N×3 or N×4, float 0-1 or uint8), or a stack with r,g,b[,a] values; one row per cell or per point

Parameter ports

Added from the Parameters pane (⊕). While connected, each drives its parameter.

Port	Accepts	Mode	Description
`axis`	primitive(number)	opt-in drives `axis`	Drives the Axis parameter while connected
`clim`	primitive(array)	opt-in drives `clim`	Drives the Color limits parameter while connected
`line_width`	primitive(number)	opt-in drives `line_width`	Drives the Line Width parameter while connected
`point_size`	primitive(number)	opt-in drives `point_size`	Drives the Point Size parameter while connected

Outputs

render(actor)

Parameters

Parameter	Kind	Default	Choices / range	Notes
Show `show`	bool	`true`		Shows or hides the drawing; a hidden Plot is not evaluated.
Color by `color_by`	choice	`values`	values \| solid \| rgba	Colors by a value array, by one solid color, or by explicit RGBA rows from the colors port.
Dataid `dataid`	str	none		Names the value array that colors the drawing; blank uses the first array.
Stack Form `form`	choice	none	points \| splines \| surface \| mesh	How a stack is drawn: points, connected splines, a reconstructed surface, or its own mesh faces.
Fieldlines `fieldlines`	bool	none		Draws splines with the field-line renderer, which adds polarity and random coloring.
Mesh Style `style`	choice	`surface`	surface \| wireframe \| points	Draws a mesh dataset as a shaded surface, a wireframe or its points.
Axis `axis`	int	`0`		For points and splines, the dimension along one line; for 3-D slices, the fixed dimension of each sheet. A traced bundle needs 1. ⇄ port
Slice Type `slice_type`	choice	`points`	points \| splines \| slices	Draws a 3-D grid as a point cloud, as splines along axis, or as one quad sheet per axis index.
Polarity coloring `polarity`	bool	`false`		Colors field lines with the polarity palette; needs the payload's first array to be polarity.
Random coloring `random`	bool	`false`		Gives each field line its own random hue instead of a value-based color.
Method `method`	choice	`delaunay_2d`	delaunay_2d \| delaunay_3d \| reconstruct_surface	Chooses how the surface form reconstructs a sheet through the points.
Colormap `cmap`	colormap	`viridis`		Maps the colored array to colors; a stock name or an @name custom colormap.
Reverse colormap `reverse`	bool	`false`		Reverses the colormap, stock or custom.
Solid color `color`	color	none		The single color used when coloring solid, or when the payload has no value array.
Opacity `opacity`	numchoice	`1`	linear \| linear_r \| geom \| geom_r \| sigmoid \| sigmoid_r \| sigmoid_1 \| sigmoid_2 \| sigmoid_3 \| sigmoid_4 \| sigmoid_5 \| sigmoid_6 \| sigmoid_7 \| sigmoid_8 \| sigmoid_9 \| sigmoid_10 \| sigmoid_15 \| sigmoid_20 \| sigmoid_3_r \| sigmoid_4_r \| sigmoid_5_r \| sigmoid_6_r \| sigmoid_7_r \| sigmoid_8_r \| sigmoid_9_r \| sigmoid_10_r \| foreground	A number from 0 to 1, a named transfer function, or an @name curve over the color range.
Blending `blending`	choice	`composite`	composite \| maximum \| minimum \| additive \| average	How a volume's samples along each ray combine into one pixel.
Shade `shade`	bool	`false`		Lets the volume mapper apply lighting; some blendings ignore it.
Color limits `clim`	range	none		The data range mapped onto the colormap; blank uses the colored array's range. ⇄ port
Log Scale `log_scale`	bool	`false`		Maps values to colors on a logarithmic scale; values below zero map to the lowest color.
Show Scalar Bar `show_scalar_bar`	bool	`true`		Draws the color bar for the colored array.
Show Edges `show_edges`	bool	`false`		Draws the cell edges of a surface; makes the line width and tube rows apply.
Line Width `line_width`	float	none	0 to	The thickness of lines; blank uses the viewport default. ⇄ port
Render Lines As Tubes `render_lines_as_tubes`	bool	`false`		Draws lines as shaded tubes whose diameter is the line width instead of flat lines.
Point Size `point_size`	float	none	0 to	The size of points; blank uses the viewport default. ⇄ port
Render Points As Spheres `render_points_as_spheres`	bool	`false`		Draws points as shaded spheres instead of flat dots.

Used by

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