set term png set title "Long trajectories" set xlabel "x" set ylabel "y" unset key r(x, y, x0, y0) = sqrt((x-x0)**2 + (y-y0)**2) k = 1 b = 0.25 Vgauss(x, y, x0, y0) = 0.5*k*b**2 * exp(-r(x,y,x0,y0)**2 / b**2) V(x, y) = Vgauss(x, y, 0, 0.5) + Vgauss(x, y, 0, -0.5) \ + Vgauss(x, y, 0.5*sqrt(3), 0) set xrange [-1.5:1.5] set yrange [-1.5:1.5] # set things up so we can plot a grayscale potential under our trajectories set view map set style data dots set samples 200; set isosamples 200 set pm3d at b set palette gray set cbrange [0:0.5*k*b**2] splot V(x, y) with pm3d nosurface, for [i=0:5] 'trajectories.data' index i using 2:3:1