PLplot
PLplot is a library of C functions that are useful for making scientific plots from programs written in a wide variety of languages. It can be used to create standard x-y plots, semi-log plots, log-log plots, contour plots, 3D plots, shade (gray-scale and color) plots, mesh plots, bar charts, and pie charts. Multiple graphs may be placed on a single page with multiple lines in each graph. Different line styles, widths, and colors are supported. A virtually infinite number of distinct area fill patterns may be used. A variety of output devices and file formats are supported.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Presentation Scientific/Engineering Visualization |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux Windows Windows Mac OS X |
| Implementation | C Fortran Python Tcl |
Recent releases
- 27 Jan 2009 14:25
Changes: The autotools were replaced with a CMake build system. Windows is now completely supported. Several language bindings were added: Ada, D, Lua, and OCaml. Several drivers were added: wxWidgets, PDF, Cairo, and SVG. Numerous features were added, such as transparency and full unicode support. Many bugs were fixed.
- 22 Apr 2003 18:47
Changes: Two new functions were added to the library API: plsmem and plgriddata (this one allows 3D plots of irregularly sampled data). The configuration scheme has been improved and many bugs have been fixed.
- 01 Feb 2002 16:15
Changes: This release works on a wide variety of platforms. There are good reports for Windows systems (98, NT, and 2000), Mac OS X, several Unix systems, and of course for Linux. It also has expanded examples, improved documentation, dynamically loadable device drivers (including a new Computer Graphics Metafile driver), and experimental versions of an image plotting function, a PyQT GUI, and a Java front end.
- 20 Jun 2001 22:32
Changes: A new portrait mode, a new -drvopt command-line option which allows you to set options for particular drivers, and a new pstex driver.
- 06 Apr 2001 10:26
Changes: New features include an Octave front-end and PNG and JPEG drivers. A Perl front end is being started, as well as a GNOME driver.
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Recent commentsMandrake 8.1 and RedHat 7.1 rpm's available for PLplot 5.1.0
More to follow. Please check sourceforge.net/projec...
for the latest information.
rpm's available for PLplot 5.0.4
See
sourceforge.net/projec...
Also click on "5.0.4" to obtain release notes and changes.
Source and binary rpm's for RedHat 7.1 released for PLplot 5.0.3
Look for plplot-5.0.3-4.src.rpm and plplot-5.0.3-4.i386.rpm
in the file release area of
sourceforge.net/projec.... The RedHat 6.2
version of these rpm's are plplot-5.0.3-1.src.rpm and
plplot-5.0.3-1.i386.rpm, but the RH 7.1 versions are much
more complete. For more information see the detailed
announcement at
www.geocrawler.com/lis...