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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