Hi David: I know I've been slack on keeping the 'high level' version of
PDL::Graphics::PLplot up to date, but I have been keeping up with PLplot
development at the lower level. That means that all C level PLplot
commands are available in perl and that the perl bindings pass all PLplot
tests.
PLplot is better-than-average open source project with many
dedicated long-time contributors. It seems to be well maintained.
Regards,
Doug
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Software Engineer
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, David Mertens wrote:
I believe PLplot hits all of these check-items. Unfortunately, it has no great
champion. I stopped using it because I feared I
would have to write too much C to bend it to my will. Not that I've had a
dearth of C in my own plotting library work... :)
David
On Feb 4, 2013 4:22 AM, "Karl Glazebrook" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi everyone
Surely there must be a modern C-callable (and implemented! No java or
python please) plotting library which
supports objects, transparency, GUI embedding,PDF etc., looks attractive,
is cross-platform and is efficient for
large datasets?
Karl
On 31/01/2013, at 7:12 PM, Timothy Pickering <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Based on the past few days of posts, I'd like to open up a thorny
issue:
>>
>> Do we have a plotting package that installs smoothly across all three
major platforms?
>>
>> I've been playing with python and matplotlib for a couple of months
now, and although the OO interface is a
royal pain, at least I know I can send a script to students/collaborators
and it will just *work* for them.
>>
>> I've seen that PLplot is throwing up errors for some people, and now
we have Gnuplot grumbling as well. PGPLOT
is still difficult to install and not interactive-friendly....
>>
>> If we want more PDL adopters, we should pick a plotting system and put
all our energies in making that work
flawlessly for a couple of years, so that interested people don't get
discouraged.
>>
>> I also have a selfish reason - if we choose something other than
PGPLOT, it means a rewrite of the PDL Book, and
I don't want to make the investment of time if we suddenly decide that
'oops, $PLOTTING_SYSTEM isn't working
anymore/new shiny thing is the way to go'.
>>
>> I'd be happy to get any plotting package working for the SciPDL Mac
binary working, if we get a general
consensus here.
>>
>> Matt
>
> i'm going to be an instigator again and point out that pgplot, plplot,
and gnuplot are all ~20 year old pieces of
legacy software. at least gnuplot is actively maintained and evolving,
but pgplot has hardly been touched in ~10
years. i've tried plplot a few times, but always ended up throwing up my
hands after a short while. maintaining
dependencies with packages like these will always be a headache and will
hold back adoption and evolution of PDL.
note that i haven't looking into prima at all, however.
>
> tying back into the previous discussion about notebook-type interfaces
like what ipython has i'd like to point
out the existence of http://d3js.org/. ipython notebooks are great, but
using matplotlib graphics within a browser
is rather limiting. integrating something like D3 opens up a lot more
flexibility and capability. a browser-based
PDL shell that used D3 for plotting could be pretty kick butt....
>
> tim
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