[Haskell-cafe] Chart plotting libraries

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:36:06PM -0800, Don Stewart wrote:
> jon:
> > I'd like some free software to help me plot charts like the one from the ray 
> > tracer language comparison:
> > 
> >   http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/results.html
> > 
> > I was using Mathematica but its stopped working and an upgrade is £2,000. Are 
> > there Haskell bindings to any free libraries or even Haskell implementations 
> > that would make something like this painless?
> > 
> > There isn't anything for OCaml (that I'm not still writing ;-) so this might 
> > be a good opportunity to force me to do a little more Haskell. :-)
> 
> A quick search of hackage.haskell.org,
> 
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Chart-2007.8.8
> 
> Using gtk and cairo. Homepage here:
> 
>     http://dockerz.net/twd/HaskellCharts

Chart has rather a complicated API.  I've written a simpler API (but
somewhat less flexible), if anyone's interested (Tim wasn't).  My API is
closer in complexity (of use) to matlab's plotting.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University