contour plots and gnuplot



Greetings!  Seconded.  In fact, it might be nice to have a simple
gnuplot interface library for common lisp so that other packages might
make use of it too.  I know I've already written something like this
for my personal use, though in C.

Take care,

James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 13:28, Jay Belanger wrote:
> 
> > Is there any interest in having gnuplot specific drawing commands?
> 
> Yes. In fact, I was going to propose that we 
> 	1) make gnuplot the default plotting application
> 	2) make it possible to send gnuplot-specfic information to
> 	    gnuplot
> 	3) ditch mgnuplot in favor of talking to gnuplot directly.
> 
> I was only going to propose 3 after demonstrating a proof-of-concept
> implementation. (I currently only have a proof-of-proof-of-concept
> implementation.)
> 
> My basic thesis is this: plotting with Octave is not ideal, but it is
> much more useful than any plotting we have available in Maxima. The
> high-level plotting commands in octave provide a wrapper for gnuplot.
> The low-level commands provide a direct connection to gnuplot. I think
> stealing these ideas (if not the specifics) is the simplest way for us
> to improve the plotting capabilities of Maxima.
> 
> Gnuplot-specific contour plotting routines would certainly be consistent
> with my ideas.
> 
> --Jim
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