That is a very nice summary. Someone needs to cut-n-paste into the Book...
(mobile) On Aug 8, 2013, at 6:19 AM, David Mertens <[email protected]> wrote: > Jovan - > > To expand on what Craig said, I'd say your best option depends on where you > expect your usage to go. Both Gnuplot and Prima should be relatively painless > to install and start using. I am the Prima guy, so bear that in mind for what > follows. Craig may want to clarify some bits here. > > Go with Gnuplot if you are getting started creating figures for research and > this could grow into a full-fledged research project. Gnuplot supports more > output file types, and has much more sophisticated figure capabilities. I'm > pretty sure that Gnuplot supports transparency, for example, and Prima does > not. This is not to say that Prima can't produce publication-quality figures: > if you are simply creating lines with different line patterns---which are the > vast majority of my figures---or heat maps that don't require a scale bar > (it's coming, but not yet ready), then Prima should work just fine. I hate to > say it, because I want people using Prima, but if you need something for > high-quality figures, your best bet is to go with Gnuplot. > > Go with Prima if you are not so focused on producing static figures and can > see yourself wanting to interact with the display of the data. > PDL::Graphics::Prima is a GUI widget underneath, so adding interaction to > your plots are very easy once you know the basics of the Prima GUI toolkit. > (Yes, there's a learning curve, no it's not steep.) This is not to say that > Gnuplot doesn't support interactive data analysis. Craig has worked very hard > to provide as much user interaction with Gnuplot as he could. But at the end > of the day, Gnuplot is a stand-alone plotting library, not a GUI toolkit. If > you see yourself wanting nontrivial programmable interaction, you're likely > to get better mileage if you go with Prima. > > I don't mention PLplot here because Chris has expressed trouble trying to get > it working on Windows. I used to use PLplot, but I don't like how it produces > heat maps and interaction with GUI toolkits (like Gtk2) were monumental > efforts. All of these concerns led me to write PDL::Graphics::Prima. As for > PGPLOT, I don't think it's endorsed by anybody anymore. > > Hope that helps! > David > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Craig DeForest <[email protected]> > wrote: > "Best" is a matter of opinion. I like gnuplot a lot, and several kind folks > donated a Hell of a lot of time to iron out the IPC gotchas and make it work > under Windows. I'd like to hear your experience to see if it really does > work "in the wild". > > > > On Aug 7, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Jovan Trujillo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I've been wanted to use more of PDL for a while now, but the machines at > > work run on Windows XP. What is the best way to get plots working on a > > Windows machine? Gnuplot? > > > > Thanks, > > Jovan > > _______________________________________________ > > Perldl mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > > > -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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