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<p>The paper presents technical application of TeX high-level, descriptive markup language for processing geological dataset from soil laboratory. Geotechnical measurements included equivalent soil cohesion, absolute and absolute deformation index, soil compressibility coefficient by time of immersion depth, exposure time to compressive strength to samples and physical and mechanical properties (humidity, density). Dataset was received from laboratory based experimental tests of the physical and mechanical properties of soils. Data were converted to csv table and processed by LaTeX. Methodology is based on LaTeX packages: {tikz}, {tikz-3dplot}, {tikzpicture}, {pgfplot}, {filecontetns}, {spy} for 3D plotting showing correlation in variables and descriptive statistical analysis based on the data array processing. Results demonstrated LaTeX scripts and graphics: 2D and 3D scatterplots, ternaries, bar charts, boxplots, zooming techniques detailing fragment of the plot, flowchart. Research novelty consists in technical approach of TeX language application for geo- logical data processing and graphical visualization. Engineering graphics by TeX was demonstrated with screenshots of the codes used for plotting.</p>
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The paper presents technical application of TeX high-level, descriptive markup language for processing geological dataset from soil laboratory. Geotechnical measurements included equivalent soil cohesion, absolute and absolute deformation index, soil compressibility coefficient by time of immersion depth, exposure time to compressive strength to samples and physical and mechanical properties (humidity, density). Dataset was received from laboratory based experimental tests of the physical and mechanical properties of soils. Data were converted to csv table and processed by LaTeX. Methodology is based on LaTeX packages: {tikz}, {tikz-3dplot}, {tikzpicture}, {pgfplot}, {filecontetns}, {spy} for 3D plotting showing correlation in variables and descriptive statistical analysis based on the data array processing. Results demonstrated LaTeX scripts and graphics: 2D and 3D scatterplots, ternaries, bar charts, boxplots, zooming techniques detailing fragment of the plot, flowchart. Research novelty consists in technical approach of TeX language application for geo- logical data processing and graphical visualization. Engineering graphics by TeX was demonstrated with screenshots of the codes used for plotting.

Using TeX Markup Language for 3D and 2D Geological Plotting

Laboratory of Regional Geophysics and Natural Disasters

Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences

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The paper presents technical application of TeX high-level, descriptive markup language for processing geological dataset from soil laboratory. Geotechnical...

Using TeX Markup Language for 3D and 2D Geological Plotting

Published Online: Mar 01, 2021

Page range: 43 - 69

Received: Apr 19, 2020

Accepted: Oct 31, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fcds-2021-0004

Keywords
LaTeX, TeX, markup language, plotting, data visualization, data analysis, geotechnical modelling, soil compression, 3D modelling, 2D modelling

© 2021 Vasiliy Lemenkov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Using TeX Markup Language for 3D and 2D Geological Plotting

Published Online: Mar 01, 2021

Page range: 43 - 69

Received: Apr 19, 2020

Accepted: Oct 31, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fcds-2021-0004

KeywordsLaTeX, TeX, markup language, plotting, data visualization, data analysis, geotechnical modelling, soil compression, 3D modelling, 2D modelling

© 2021 Vasiliy Lemenkov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
LaTeX, TeX, markup language, plotting, data visualization, data analysis, geotechnical modelling, soil compression, 3D modelling, 2D modelling