# set terminal png transparent nocrop enhanced font arial 8 size 420,320 # set output 'surface2.6.png' set dummy u,v set key bmargin center horizontal Right noreverse enhanced autotitles nobox set parametric set view 45, 50, 1, 1 set isosamples 100, 20 set hidden3d offset 1 trianglepattern 3 undefined 1 altdiagonal bentover set ticslevel 0 set title "Parametric Helix" set urange [ 0.00000 : 31.4159 ] noreverse nowriteback set vrange [ 0.00000 : 6.28319 ] noreverse nowriteback set zrange [ * : * ] noreverse nowriteback # (currently [-1.00000:1.00000] ) splot (1-0.1*cos(v))*cos(u),(1-0.1*cos(v))*sin(u),0.1*(sin(v)+u/1.7-10)