Why when I do redimension the graph will distort?

I have many waves, three of which form a group. For example ,wave0,wave1,wave2 form a group where wave0 is x coordinate, wave1 is y coordinate and wave2 is the weight which serves as f(z). I can plot them as shown normally in the Igor file but when I redimension these waves or insert points with value zero behind the original waves, the graph begin to distort (the upper figure is the original graph and the lower figure is the graph after redimension). How to solve the problem?

the original graph the graph after redimension The Igor file (the distorted graph can be made using the procedure I provide in Proc0)

First, it would generally be nice if you could provide a minimal working example of your problem and explain exactly what you did to get to this point. For example, it was not clear that you meant your function f2() to produce the lower graph you showed, and also the code for f2() was not working with the waves you were providing.

Anyway, after fixing the code I get some similar graph. Here, the graph is not distorted but rather all traces correctly wrap back to zero, as Redimension fills the newly created points with zero by default. You need to fill the new points with something useful to be correctly displayed. But this depends on what you want to do. What is the reason for tripling the number of points here?

In reply to by chozo

Thank you very much. First you need to run f1() and then f2() to get the second graph. I want to do 3-fold rotations, i.e. two successive 120 degree rotations of the original graph so I triple the number of points. But the result is weird as shown below.

Graph2.png

Ah I see. As written above, the problem is that traces connect to the respective next point which creates these seams. You can circumvent this in various ways. For example, you could change the graph mode to dots, i.e., 

ModifyGraph mode=2

Or you introduce one NaN value between the repeated sets. Traces are not connected across NaN.

By the way, I see a few optimizations you could do here. First, 2/3s of your waves are redundant since they simply contain a constant  (for color) and a linear rise (x-values). The former could be done by simply applying a color via a script instead of using f(z) and the latter could be achieved by using Igor's wave scaling feature. Then, I wonder if it wouldn't be more efficient to first convert your data into an image before doing the rotation. But I don't know what data fidelity you want for the final result.

Great that it worked. You can also adjust the dot size to adjust the "density" of the lines. But as I said, it might be much easier to work with an image instead of these hundreds of waves in a normal graph. The script below converts everything into an image, so that you don't need all these individual waves anymore:

Function makeImage()
    variable i
    String list = ""
    for(i=2;i<1800;i+=3)
        list += "wave"+num2str(i)+";"
    endfor
    Concatenate/O list, image
    SetScale/I x, 0, 1, image
    SetScale/I y, 0, 1, image
End