Brief Description of Gnuplot
Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility
for UNIX, Windows, Mac, and VMS platforms. The software is copyrighted but
freely distributed. It was
originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists
and students to visualize mathematical functions and data.
Gnuplot handles both curves (2 dimensions) and surfaces (3
dimensions). Surfaces can be plotted as a mesh fitting the specified
function, floating in the 3-d coordinate space, or as a contour plot
on the x-y plane. For 2-d plots, there are also many plot styles,
including lines, points, lines with points, error bars, and impulses
. Graphs may be labeled with arbitrary labels and
arrows, axes labels, a title, date and time, and a key. The interface
includes command-line editing and history on most platforms.
Gnuplot
supports many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers
(including many color devices, and pseudo-devices like LaTeX) and is
easily extensible to include new devices.
For more information about Gnuplot check out
the Gnuplot Homepage
, the Gnuplot Reference Manual
or the
Gnuplot FAQs. From the Gnuplot Homepage, you can access the Gnuplot source
files and binaries for UNIX, MSDOS, and VMS platforms.
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