Advice on a graphics package

BernieC has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm thinking of doing some graphics hacking. I'd like to do it in perl but I don't know what "backend" makes sense. gnuplot seems to mostly want to make graphs of various kinds... but what I'm doing is math hacking. The sort of thing I'd like to play with is this

Triskelion

Is ImageMagick a reasonable choice for this kind of thing? Something else? Thanks!!

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Re: Advice on a graphics package by holli (Abbot) on Aug 28, 2019 at 14:51 UTC
Perl is good with text. How about the SVG format? Here's a low level SVG module. holli You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Advice on a graphics package by Lotus1 (Vicar) on Aug 28, 2019 at 14:55 UTC
I was about to recommend SVG also. I found this article with some simple examples.	[reply]
Re^2: Advice on a graphics package by BernieC (Pilgrim) on Aug 28, 2019 at 17:27 UTC
SVG looks perfect. Thanks!! /b\	[reply]
Re: Advice on a graphics package by ForgotPasswordAgain (Vicar) on Aug 28, 2019 at 14:53 UTC
ImageMagick is possible. There's also Cairo, OpenGL, SDL.	[reply]
Re: Advice on a graphics package by jcb (Parson) on Aug 28, 2019 at 23:09 UTC
You want images to visualize numerical results? You definitely want PDL, then. It does the math faster, too.	[reply]
Re^2: Advice on a graphics package by etj (Priest) on Apr 29, 2022 at 13:50 UTC
Specifically, PDL::Graphics::Simple and/or PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot. For local visualisation, the TriD stuff is good too (do `demo 3d` in the `perldl` shell).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Advice on a graphics package by BernieC (Pilgrim) on Aug 29, 2019 at 16:53 UTC
SVG proved to be perfect. Easy to understand and it was easy to get going. 15 minutes of fooling around got me this: www.fantasyfarm.com/reverse.jpg {dunno how to put IMG or a URL in a post here]. so I'm a happy camper. THANKS!!! /Bernie\	[reply]
Re^2: Advice on a graphics package by hippo (Archbishop) on Aug 29, 2019 at 17:42 UTC
Try Perl Monks Approved HTML tags?	[reply]