From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu May 27 06:48:37 1999 Subject: Re: GRACE as a plotting tool From: Teemu Ikonen To: "Jean-Marc.Valin" cc: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:48:32 +0300 (EET DST) On Wed, 26 May 1999, Jean-Marc.Valin wrote: > I see you are trying to find a plotting tool for octave. I can suggest Yes, I for one am interested in making Octave's plotting capabilities better. The default plotter, Gnuplot, isn't bad, but it lacks in user-friendlines and has a bit ugly looking output, atleast with the default settings, plus the license isn't GPL. The plotting utility replacing Gnplot should at least have the following: - Easy to use gui for setting titles, axis labels, their fonts, tickmarks, etc. - Publication quality output in postscript - Enough different plot types to ease data visualisation I took a quick look on the plotting packages available in Debian Linux distribution, but none of them actually didn't seem to do any better job than Gnuplot, except for a package called Plotmtv which did have nice contour plots. I have personally been following the would-be official Gnome plotting program Guppi, which isn't ready yet, but shows some promise. Guppi should have a nice CORBA interface and is gui-based and easy to use. High quality output is produced by Gnome printing libraries. Besides plotting, Gnome interface would be a nice thing if octave developers want to implement Matlab -like gui functions some day... > library (via a named pipe). I already wrote octave functions (.m) that > use grace for plotting functions (plot, labels, legend, title, some > subplot, ...). There are still some bugs, but it was working not too bad > with 2.0.13 / grace 5.0.1. Anyone interrested by the code (GPL of course). I suggest you put the code in a public www/ftp site somewhere. t.