Here is a start for a display if you are willing to, or can, use Tk. The Tk Canvas widget is very versatile, you can do almost anything you want on it. Remember, Tk requires a X server, or equivalent to run; it's not command line.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

my $w=20;
my $x=0;
my $y=0;

my %colors = (
   0 => ['black','yellow'], 
   1 => ['yellow','black'], 
   2 => ['white','green'],    
   3 => ['green','white'], 
   4 => ['grey','red'], 
   5 => ['red','grey'], 
   6 => ['blue','white'], 
   7 => ['white','blue'], 
   8 => ['orange','grey45'], 
   9 => ['grey45','orange'], 
);

my %bardata = (
   0 => rand 200,
   1 => rand 200,
   2 => rand 200,
   3 => rand 200,
   4 => rand 200,
   5 => rand 200,
   6 => rand 200,
   7 => rand 200,
   8 => rand 200,
   9 => rand 200,
);

my %bars;

my $mw=tkinit;
my $c = $mw->Canvas->pack;

for (0..9) {
  $bars{$_} = $c->createRectangle($x,$y,$x+20,$bardata{$_},
             -fill=> ${$colors{$_}}[0],
          );

my $text = $c->createText($x+10,$y+10,
           -anchor=>'center',
       -fill => ${$colors{$_}}[1],
       -text => $_
          );
      
      $x+=20;
}

$mw->Button(
    -text    => "Save",
    -command => [sub {
         $c->update;
         my @capture=();
         my ($x0,$y0,$x1,$y1)=$c->bbox('all');
         @capture=('-x'=>$x0,'-y'=>$y0,-height=>$y1-$y0,-width=>$x1-$x
+0);
         $c -> postscript(-colormode=>'color',
                               -file=>$0.'.ps',
                   -rotate=>90,
                   -width=>800,
                   -height=>500,    
                   @capture);
                               
                  } 
   
  ]  )->pack;

$mw->repeat(200, sub{ &update });
 
MainLoop;
##########################################################
sub update{

$x=0;
$y=0;

 %bardata = (
   0 => rand 200,
   1 => rand 200,
   2 => rand 200,
   3 => rand 200,
   4 => rand 200,
   5 => rand 200,
   6 => rand 200,
   7 => rand 200,
   8 => rand 200,
   9 => rand 200,
);


for (0..9) {

  $c->delete( $bars{$_}  );

  $bars{$_} = $c->createRectangle($x,$y,$x+20,$bardata{$_},
             -fill=> ${$colors{$_}}[0],
          );

  my $text = $c->createText($x+10,$y+10,
           -anchor=>'center',
       -fill => ${$colors{$_}}[1],
       -text => $_
          );
      
      $x+=20;
 }

}
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