Huygens Data Plotter

The Huygens Data Plotter is a graphical tool available in Huygens Professional and Huygens Essential for quick inspection of datasets like light flux or intensity profiles along a 3D image. The data plotter is available in the Twin Slicer, and also in the Deconvolution wizard.

Huygens version 3.3 and higher

• Left-click and drag to use the plot measurement tool
• Double-left-click to create a tag on the plot
• Right-click, drag, and release to zoom into a selected area
• Middle-click to reset the plot
• The scroll wheel zooms in or out
• The arrow keys pan
• C clears all tags
• D removes the last tag
• R resets the plot
• O shows the origin
• W changes the color scheme
• M changes the plotting mode
• Y toggles logarithmic scaling
• S exports the plot to Post Script
• E exports the data to Comma Separated Values (CSV)
• T exports tags to Comma Separated Values (CSV)
• H or F1 open the help page
• + zooms in
• - zooms out

Huygens 3.0

On the plotter window you have the following options:

• Moving the mouse over the image gives you the coordinates at the bottom of the window.
• Double-click or Ctrl+click tags a point on the plot with its coordinates.
• Clicking with the mouse right button draws a rectangle that serves as a measuring tool. Finishing the selection again with the same button zooms to the selected area. Clicking with the mouse left button hides the selector.
• Clicking with the middle-button or pressing the R key resets the zoom to fit the data.
• D deletes the last added tag, and C clears all of them.
• S saves the current graph as a Post Script file.
• E exports the data as Comma Separated Values (CSV).
• T exports the list of created tags as CSV.
• W changes the color scheme. Specially usefull is the gray scale one, for exporting the image.
• M changes the plotting mode, from lines to dots.
• Use the arrows for panning, and +/- for zooming in and out
• ESCAPE closes the graph.
• H or F1 opens this help article