With PlotMarkers → Automatic Mathematica cycles through 10 shapes - actually 5 shapes (circle, square, diamond, up triangle and down triangle) and 2 styles (filled/solid and hollow/open) as shown in the attached notebook. The first two are easy to reproduce, but how can the others be specified?
The default markers are
(*
{"\[FilledCircle]","\[FilledSquare]","\[FilledDiamond]","\[FilledUpTriangle]",
"\[FilledDownTriangle]","\[EmptyCircle]","\[EmptySquare]","\[EmptyDiamond]",
"\[EmptyUpTriangle]","\[EmptyDownTriangle]"}
*)
That list is from
Graphics`PlotMarkers[]
Thanks Rohit
I am attaching a notebook which compares the PlotMarkers used with “Automatic” and those obtained from Graphics`PlotMarkers[]. I am using the PlotMarkers from this code
{filledcircle, filledsquare, filleddiamond, filleduptriangle,
filleddowntriangle, circle, square, diamond, uptriangle,
downtriangle} = Graphics`PlotMarkers[][[All, 1]];
The appearance of the “Automatic” PlotMarkers is quite different from the appearance of those obtained as above, Also note
Head[filledcircle]
*String*
Head[Graphics[Disk[]]]
*Graphics*
It would be so much better if there were the equivalents of Disk[] and Rectangle[] for the other shapes.