# set terminal pngcairo background "#ffffff" enhanced font "arial,10" fontscale 1.0 size 600, 400 # 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 back offset 1 trianglepattern 3 undefined 1 altdiagonal bentover set style data lines set ticslevel 0 set title "Parametric Helix" set urange [ 0.00000 : 31.4159 ] noreverse nowriteback set vrange [ 0.00000 : 6.28319 ] noreverse nowriteback splot (1-0.1*cos(v))*cos(u),(1-0.1*cos(v))*sin(u),0.1*(sin(v)+u/1.7-10)