reset set terminal pngcairo size 1024,768 enhanced font 'Arial,18' set xlabel "Wavenumber" set ylabel "Growth rate" do for [i=1:50] { stats 'amp-'.i.'.dat' every ::::0 using 2 nooutput k = STATS_min f(x) = a + b*x fit f(x) 'amp-'.i.'.dat' u 2:(log($4)) every ::1 via a,b set object circle at first k,b radius char 0.5 \ fillstyle empty border lc rgb '#aa1100' lw 2 } set samples 1000 set xrange [0:1.2] plot real(sqrt(0.5*(x**2-x**4))) t 'Theory'