SPUG: summary: plot frameworks

[Jay Scherrer]

What would happen if you used the Gimp and perl-fu scripting?
I haven't tried my self but it seems very possible.  

Jay
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 09:10 pm, Fred Morris wrote:
> GnuPlot         http://www.gnuplot.info/        2
>         Some perl modules may be available.
>
> Chart::Plot                                     2
>
> GD::Graph                                       1
>
> Perl Tk                                         (found that myself)
>         Has a plot demo. The Canvas widget supports PostScript
>         output. The demo code doesn't seem to be designed to be
>         immediately adaptable to real-world application, more like
>         its primarly purpose is to showcase Tk and prowess of the
>         programmers.
>
> BLT                                             (found that myself)
>         A Tk add-on. Nice built-in support for zooming and output
>         of not only PostScript but bitmaps. No direct Perl support
>         though.
>
> So, looks like I've got some reading to do...
>
> Ultimately if the concept works out, I'll probably want to serve it up
> web-based somehow and hyperlink it back to the original data, but somewhere
> in there there's got to be a suitable tool for proof of concept! It all
> depends on how the data munging goes. If anybody's truly curious, they can
> e-mail me directly; maybe I'll publish something on the web if it works
> well. I'll just say for the moment that it has to do with analyzing and
> graphing relationships between entities over time (yes, I'm thinking of my
> calendar and contacts data). The same concept might also be put to
> analyzing intrusion logs (what a coincidence, I've got some of those, too).
> The basic concepts involved aren't new or even particularly esoteric (at
> least to me, I saw one of the algorithms in use in some form or another in
> the early 1980s), but the combination might be fairly novel.
>
>
> Anyway, hopefully I'll have something interesting to follow this up with in
> a month or three.
>
>
> (PS, I was able to get the Perl Tk plot demo working... without reading
> FAQs. At least with the not-exactly current copy I had, the demos didn't
> run out of the box, they were embedded in some sort of baroque framework.
> But all it took was shebang /usr/bin/perl, creating a main window, and
> calling MainLoop()... FWIW. The demo code is not exactly fast food, but the
> necessary nuggets of nutrition could be extracted fairly easily and made to
> work.)
>
> --
>
> Fred Morris
> m3047 at inwa.net
>
>
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