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Graphs of points and lines, no fancy graphics to impress people, and options you can change easily? I think you want gnuplot. It can output to various formats, such as on a local X11 or Windows window, or send whichever of postscript, pdf, svg, png you can display best if you're working remotely.

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Re^2: The browser as a (simple) window manager.
by choroba (Cardinal) on Dec 11, 2010 at 18:37 UTC
    I use gnuplot a lot. You can even rotate your 3D graphs in its window with mouse :)
Re^2: The browser as a (simple) window manager.
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 11, 2010 at 19:14 UTC
    Graphs of points and lines...

    Not just graphs. And even when they are graphs, they aren't simple two or three sets of data, but rather the same set of data to be redisplayed as (for example) a GA program evolves.

    I think you want gnuplot.

    Not really. Actually, not at all. gnuplot won't allow me to (for example) adjust a low or high-pass filter threshhold as the data is being gathered and plotted.

    It can output to various formats, such as on a local X11 or Windows window, or send whichever of postscript, pdf, svg, png you can display best if you're working remotely.

    Output formats are of no importance, the plots are generally thrown away afterwards. If I need to keep and share them, a simple png or screen grab is good enough. And I never work remotely.


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      Not really. Actually, not at all. gnuplot won't allow me to (for example) adjust a low or high-pass filter threshhold as the data is being gathered and plotted.
      well, that sounds like what this project promises, from the page:
      .. to plot data [on gnuplot] on the fly as they are computed ..
      it's in python though, and I didn't found a perl equivalent, perhaps you could make a port, if it suit your needs.
Re^2: The browser as a (simple) window manager.
by etj (Priest) on May 28, 2022 at 21:39 UTC