Gnuplot Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for UNIX, MSDOS, and VMS platforms. It was originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data. Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers 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 (crude bar graphs). 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.

Current Version:   3.7.1 License Type:   Copyrighted but freely distributed. (The "GNU" in gnuplot is NOT related to the Free Software Foundation)

Home Site: http://www.gnuplot.org/ http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/ Source Code Availability: Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package: Yes, http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages RedHat RPM Package: Yes Other Packages: Yes Targeted Platforms: MS-DOS, MS-Windows, VMS, UNIX Software/Hardware Requirements: Minimal hardware requirement. Works best with X11 under Linux :).

Other Links: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot_info.html http://members.theglobe.com/gnuplot/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/6647/ http://wwwfg.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ig25/gnuplot-faq.html/ (Official FAQ) ftp://ftp.gnuplot.vt.edu/pub/gnuplot/ (FTP Site) http://www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/~breiter/tools/gnuplot/index.en.html (Misc Gnuplot Tools) Mailing Lists/USENET News Groups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot User Comments: Several incomplete GUI interfaces for gnuplot are available. Linux Journal, No.28, August, 1996. See A Screen Shot? (Not Yet)

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