From owner-octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Mar 16 21:18:44 1997
Subject: Re: whatever happened to plplot?
From: Ali Rahimi <ali at con dot xcf dot berkeley dot edu>
To: octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, spaz@u.washington.edu
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 19:13:37 -0800

Hi.

The Horatio library I am developing with a postdoc here at Berkeley
has a very nice plot package. It's a little incompletely right now
(no bar graphs, no 3d plotting) but it has everything from multiple
plots in a window to a device indepandant graphics library. We have
drivers for postscrip and X11, and drivers for Windows and Mac are
not difficult to write (they should take about 2 days each if you
know what you're doing).

The package also supports what we call dynamic plots. Dynamic plots
update the graph as you add elements to your array. This is ideal for
simulation and data acquisition sorts of things. I will also be 
implementing an oscilloscope plot which lets you plot the last N points
input.

I can put snapshots on my homepage if you want me to. The plots look
a lot like matlabs, with some enhancements. They look considerably
better than gnuplot's anderachieving look. 

 Ali.