[Chicago] [ChiPy-announce] Graphing library

[Allan Spale]

Should you want to go more heavily toward 3-D info/data viz or volume
visualization, I would strongly recommend VTK (http://www.vtk.org/) which
has multiple language bindings including Python.

Allan


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Garrett Smith <g at rrett.us.com> wrote:

> That is pretty freakin' awesome. Will take a look.
>
> (And sorry for posting to the wrong list -- hard to keep track of all these
> Chipy channels.)
>
> ----- "Rob Kapteyn" <robkapteyn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > matplotlib is easily the most awesome -- and it was done by Chicago's
> John Hunter who did a ChiPy presentation on it 2-3 years ago.
> >
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
> >
> >
> The main caveat is that it that it can be a bit confusing to set it up the
> first time.
> it requires numpy and a bunch some external font tools and libraries.
> It has a lot of flexibility -- i.e., you can generate graphics files or
> interact with a GUI in real time.
> My experience is that it is very fast and efficient -- once you get it set
> up.
>
> >
> -Rob
>
> >
>
> > On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Garrett Smith wrote:
>
> > Any thoughts on the most awesomest graphing library for Python?
> >
> > I need something that's free of weird commercial licenses, obviously.
> >
> > Simple APIs are preferred. Performance and efficiency are very important.
> The ability to create pretty pictures is a bonus, but this is first for
> foremost for utility.
> >
> > Most, if not all, of the data will be time series.
> >
> > I'm using rrdtools, which of course is very good for managing and
> graphing time series data. This may ultimately be the right course, but I'm
> wondering if anyone has some insight into some other options in the Python
> world.
> >
> > Thanks for any input!
> >
> > Garrett
> >
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