in reply to 3d scientific graphing

Not perl specific, but gnuplot works well for some plots.

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Re: 3d scientific graphing
by bret.foreman (Acolyte) on Aug 05, 2004 at 22:07 UTC
    gnuplot looks to have just the functionality I need. It's going to be awkward to use from PERL, but not impossible. You feed it a bunch of parameters and data in the stdin and it can spit out a gif file to stdout. It's not pretty, though, so I'm still open to suggestions about an all-PERL solution.

    Thanks
    Bret

      I would second Aristotle's suggestion of using PDL, It has a submodule, TriD, I think it is called, that will do 3D scatterplots. This is an all perl solution.

      -Mark

        Yes, PDL::Graphics::TriD is a powerful all-PERL solution. A cursory look through the documentation did not reveal any obvious way to use it inside a CGI script, but I'm still studying the problem. If I can find a way to get it to put out GIF or another format that PERL knows how to show in a browser, I'll be set.

        Thanks,
        Bret