<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Area Series - GNU Octave</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Octave"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Object-Groups.html#Object-Groups" title="Object Groups"> <link rel="prev" href="Data-Sources-in-Object-Groups.html#Data-Sources-in-Object-Groups" title="Data Sources in Object Groups"> <link rel="next" href="Bar-Series.html#Bar-Series" title="Bar Series"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Area-Series"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Bar-Series.html#Bar-Series">Bar Series</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Data-Sources-in-Object-Groups.html#Data-Sources-in-Object-Groups">Data Sources in Object Groups</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Object-Groups.html#Object-Groups">Object Groups</a> <hr> </div> <h5 class="subsubsection">15.4.6.2 Area Series</h5> <p><a name="index-series-objects-1571"></a><a name="index-area-series-1572"></a> Area series objects are created by the <code>area</code> function. Each of the <code>hggroup</code> elements contains a single patch object. The properties of the area series are <dl> <dt><code>basevalue</code><dd>The value where the base of the area plot is drawn. <br><dt><code>linewidth</code><dt><code>linestyle</code><dd>The line width and style of the edge of the patch objects making up the areas. See <a href="Line-Styles.html#Line-Styles">Line Styles</a>. <br><dt><code>edgecolor</code><dt><code>facecolor</code><dd>The line and fill color of the patch objects making up the areas. See <a href="Colors.html#Colors">Colors</a>. <br><dt><code>xdata</code><dt><code>ydata</code><dd>The x and y coordinates of the original columns of the data passed to <code>area</code> prior to the cumulative summation used in the <code>area</code> function. <br><dt><code>xdatasource</code><dt><code>ydatasource</code><dd>Data source variables. </dl> </body></html>