Basic 2D plot styles

• simple functions
• filled curves
• fill between curves
• candlesticks
• error bars
• histograms (more)
• histogram + errorbars
• bar graphs
• step functions
• multiple axis scales
• mixing styles
• variable size points
• parallel axis plots
• parametric functions
• piecewise functions
• vector fields
• circles
• boxplots
• rug plot
• jitter (bee swarm)
• spider plot
• text

Math functions

• approximation
• complex trig functions
• complex error function
• probability
• probability (more)
• random numbers
• recursion, etc...
• data statistics

Curve fitting

• cubic and Bezier splines
• monotonic csplines
• explicit B-splines
• explicit Bezier splines
• Levenberg-Marquardt DLS

Colors

• data-dependent coloring
• RGB coloring
• RGB + alpha channel
• pm3d colors
• pm3d gamma

3D plots and surfaces

• surfaces 1
• surfaces 2
• contours
• custom contour lines
• singularities
• hidden surfaces
• pm3d coloring
• pm3d hidden surfaces
• pm3d clipping
• 3D mapping
• 2D projection of 3D surface
• shaded error region
• azimuth
• boxes
• circle and polygon 3D objects
• pm3d polygons
• lighting model
• hidden3d v. pm3d

Volume plots (new!)

• voxel-dependent coloring
• 3D representation of voxels
• 3D isosurface

Coordinate and
axis transforms

• linked axes
• logscale axes
• nonlinear axes
• broken axes
• polar coords
• polar functions
• polar data
• polar quadrants
• cylindrical/spherical
• time/date coords
• coord sampling ranges

Binary and Image data

• binary data
• image data
• binary and image tricks
• RGB + alpha channel
• bar chart art
• missing/NaN values
• pixmap gradients and icons

Sample Applications

• Epidemiological data
• control models
• discrete contours
• financial data
• iteration
• non-gridded data
• running averages
• automatic binning
• binning/histograms
• arrays
• fence plots
• Gantt chart
• points labeled by origin
• label stacked histogram
• 2D and 3D heat maps
• heatmaps from scattered points
• solar path diagram
• map projections
• violin plot

Text options

• rotated text
• 'enhanced' text
• string data
• boxed text
• variable font size
• string variables
• hypertext (no png support)
• unicode as \U+xxxx"

Page Layout

• multiplot layout
• multiple plots
• aligned plots
• axis location
• axis ticmarks
• walls
• rectangles
• customized key
• extra key entries

Styles

• line and arrow styles
• fill styles
• dashed lines
• transparency
• transparent solids

Animation

• animated gif

This page generated November 2022

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