Plotting data
Plotting data is a guide to the various resource for plotting data using Tcl.
See Also
- BLT - graph - how to draw a sophisticated time axis
- How to set up a horizontal time axis on a BLT graph labelled both with dates and intermediate hour markers, and with the dates centralized with respect to the hours.
- Chart generation support
- Some canvas drawing routines to facilitate chart generation.
- emu_graph
- A pure-Tcl 2D graphing package
- Histogram Plotter
- A simple canvas object.
- loon
- An interactive plotting toolkit for Tcl and R.
- Plotchart
- Simple yet versatile plotting and charting.
- emu_graph by Steve Cassidy
- A pure-Tcl 2D graphing package
- tgdchart
- A Tcl extension providing harting and graphing capabilities via the GDChart library
- nsgd
- Nsgd is a module for AOLserver that allows a web designer to create dynamically-created graphics using the GD library.
- ticklEcharts
- Tcl wrapper around Apache ECharts (JavaScript Visualization library).
Non-Tcl Storage Systems
- RRD (Round-Robin Database Tool)
Misc
What: matplotlib
Where: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net
Description: matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces
publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats
and interactive environments across platforms.
matplotlib can be used in python scripts, the python and
ipython shell (ala matlab or mathematica), web application
servers, and six graphical user interface toolkits.
Updated: 4/8/2009
Contact:
What: TGDChart
Where: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tgdchart/
Description:
Updated: A TCL extension providing charting and graphing capabilities via the GDChart C library.
Updated: 6/7/2002
Contact: Craig Huckabee (throught SourceForge site)
What: cactus2d
Where: http://nemo.as.arizona.edu/%7Eswest/cactus/
Description: Simple program for making 2 dimension line and scatter plots
from columns of data. Requires Tcl/Tk/BLT .
Updated: 09/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: cpumon
Where: http://www.ragnet.demon.co.uk/
Description: Invokes vmstat processes to monitor CPU metrics and plots
them in a tri-color graph.
The xcpu program is at ragnet.
Updated: 03/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Glenn Huxtable)
mailto:[email protected]
What: Data Explorer interactors
Where: http://www.geog.psu.edu/geovista/
Description: Contact pointed readers to the DXLink facility in Data
Explorer, which he mentions makes custom interactors easy to
write in Tcl/Tk. He pointed readers to the above URL and mentioned
that under "Features Project", that scatterplot brushing and
parallel coordinate plots use Tcl/Tk interactors - used to control
execution and display of DX. More info on this topic would
be appreciated by this catalog maintainer.
Updated: 03/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Ray Masters)
What: Dataplot
Where: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/homepage.htm
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/gui_mode.htm
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/com_mode.htm
Description: Free public domain multi-platform software system for
scientific visualization, statistical analysis and non-linear
modeling.
Makes use of Tcl/Tk, Expect, etc. to provide a graphical interface.
Updated: 10/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: datavision
Where: ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/mirror/ftp.procplace.com/sorted/packages-7.6/graphics/dv1.0b/dv1.0b.tar.gz
Description: DataVision is a window surfaced table plotting program
based on Tcl 7.3/Tk 3.6/tclX. Supports 2-D diagrams.
Has been tested with Windowing Oracle SQL (wosql) v2.2 as well.
Updated: 02/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Michael Boese)
What: nep
Where: http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/%7Ekir/nephome/
http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/%7Ekir/BLTvectorRead.patch
Description: Interactive plot program based on BLT, intended for interactive
exploration of 1 or more datasets.
Interactive panning, scaling, zooming, scrolling and jumping.
Each dataset gets a natural scrolling distance, markers associated
with the data for display.
Requires Tcl/Tk 8.0 and BLT 2.4i. Currently at v2.0.3.
Updated: 11/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Harald Kirsch)
What: Netscape client Tcl Tclet (Madhuram)
Where: http://challenge.dcn.cs.ucf.edu/%7Emadhuram/acads/tcltk/plot.html
http://madhuram.tripod.com/tclpage.html
Description: Interactive Graph Plotter and alertness tester.
Updated: 02/2000
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (C. Rajkumar Madhuram)
What: Netscape client Tcl Tclet (Schelter)
Where: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/netmath/demo/demo.html
Description: Netmath is a web browser with built in plotting facilities
and interface to computation engines.
Updated: 06/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: Netscape client Tcl Tclets (McCaskey)
Where: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/%7Emccaskey/
Description: Serious Series is a a flexible Tk plotting Tclet for
producing points, lines, columns, multiple axes, annotations, etc.
Updated: 11/1996
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (John McCaskey)
What: OMNeT++
Where: http://www.hit.bme.hu/phd/vargaa/omnetpp.htm
Description: A C++ based discrete event simulator, featuring a graphical
model editor, textual model topology language, simulation class
library, process based activity description, run time user
interfaces (batch, graphical, TVision), message flow and
statistics animation, interactive simulation, tracing,
random seed generaator tool, result analysis and plotting and
support for PVM parallel Virtual Machine.
Tcl/Tk used to build several of the graphical tools.
Has been ported to Windows 95/NT.
Currently at version 2.1 .
Updated: 07/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Andras Varga)
mailto:[email protected]
What: plot.tk
Where: From the contact
Description: A simple example of calling gnuplot from Tk and graphically
plotting the results.
Updated: 11/1996
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Peter Brueckner)
What: plplot
Where: http://plplot.sourceforge.net/
ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/mirror/ftp.procplace.com/sorted/packages-8.0/graphics/Plplot-src/4.99/plplot-src.tar.gz
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Edarley/pLTK.html
Description: A scientific plotting package, containing a wide range of
plot types and font characters. It supports many different
output device drivers. It provides a full user interface,
with zoom, pan, orient, etc.
Plplot is a GLPL'ed graphing and plotting package, containing
much improved C++ and Tk (and incr Tk) integration compared to
the old releases. Can be used stand alone or on top of Cpptcl.
Use of Cpptcl can allow access to the Tcl_Obj interface of Tcl and
result in faster performance in some cases.
It also includes a stand alone Tcl matrix object.
Now requires Tcl/Tk 8.x.
The build system uses CMake, so that builds are possible on Linux,
OSX and Windows (bare Windows, Cygwin and MinGW).
Currently at version 5.10.0 (soon 5.11.0).
Updated: 02/2015
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Arjen Markus)
mailto:[email protected] and [email protected] for mailing list.PLPLOT, which has available a Tcl and a Tk interface. There is a mailing list in support of it. To subscribe, see the PLplot project page on SF. (Note: AM took the liberty of updating this information, as one of the maintainers of this package, dd. 11 february 2015)
What: ptplot (ptolemy)
Where: http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/java/ptplot/
Description: Java two dimensional plotter - alternative to xgraph or
pxgraph. Includes ptplot2mif.tcl to convert the output of
ptplot to Framemaker MIF.
Ptolemy hacker mailing list also takes questions on ptplot.
Updated: 06/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: POW
Where: http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xray/astroe/tako/wasabi.html
http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xray/astroe/tako/maps
http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/adassVI/brownl.html
Description: X-Y style graphics plotting tools that work stand alone or
with plugin.
Updated: 04/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: R
Where: http://www.r-project.org/
http://cran.r-project.org/
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/%7Ehornik/R/R-FAQ.html
http://stat.auckland.ac.nz/rproj.html
Description: Statistical computing and visualization language, similar to the S
language. Provides a wide variety of techniques.
Comes with a tcltk package providing interface and language bindings
for Tcl/Tk.
Makes use of plplot.
Note that Mark Myatt mailto:[email protected] is
writing a syntax highlighting editor to be used as a front-end
of R; contact him for details.
Currently at version 1.5.0 .
Updated: 10/2001
Contact: See web site
What: SciTeXt
Where: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/%7ESciTeXt/
Description: Object oriented Unix WYSIWYG word processor, supports Type 1
PostScript fonts, context sensitive toolbars, language independant,
shortcuts, online help, supports document and paragraph level
templates, spell checker and thesaurus, footnotes, table of
contents, indices, chapter numbering, glossary, tables, charts,
mathmatical plots, document exchange.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (SciTeXt mailing list)
(send address above a "subscribe scitext")
What: splotter
Where: http://www.naskita.com/linux/splotter/splotter.shtml
Description: Tcl/Tk app to plot simple 2 and 3 D graphs.
Currently at version 1.2 .
Updated: 10/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: Stopwatch (Shijo)
Where: http://www.hf.rim.or.jp/%7Enagao/stopwatch1.0.tar.gz
Description: A simple stopwatch implemented in Tcl/Tk.
This script works as both Tclet and stand alone program.
He has also written a perl/Tk driver for gnuplot 3.7 - contact him
for it.
Tcl7.5/Tk4.1 or newer version including Tcl8.0/Tk8.0 is required.
Updated: 12/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Nagao Shijo)
What: tkgraph
Where: ftp://ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu/pub/wart/tkgrpah-1.0b1.tgz
Description: [incr tk] tool for graphing. Create xy plots and polar plots.
Uses itcl 2.2p2 and dash patch.
Known to work with SunOs v4.1.3, v5.5.1, and Linux v2.0.33.
Updated: 06/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Mike Thomas)
What: tkxgraph
Where: http://methi.ndim.edrc.cmu.edu:8888/tkxgraph1.0.tar.gz
Description: Tk plotting tool
Updated: 06/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Benjamin A Allan)
What: Wafe
Where: http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/wafe/
ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/X11/wafe/1.0.19/
ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/X11/wafe/1.0.19/wafe-1.0.19.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/X11/wafe/Xaw3d-1.3.2-src.tar.gz
http://www.inria.fr/koala/jml/jml.html
Description: Application forming an interface to the Tcl binding to Xt
and various widget sets like Athena (Xaw3d),
OSF/Motif (1.1 to 2.0), and others. At the above FTP site are
many other associated tar files, such as Linux binaries, Xaw3d,
documentation, etc. Wafe can be used as a frontend for programs
in arbitrary programming languages (there are example programs
written in Perl and Python contained in the package).
As of version v1.0.18 Wafe supports the Kino widget class,
Mosaic HTML widget, plotter widgets, XmGraph widget,
Layout widget, tree widget, XbaeMatrix widget,
Ghostview widget, Eurobridge widget, analog clock widget,
most of the FWF widget classes, libWWW, LDAP library and more.
Wafe supports graphic formats such as XBM, XPM, GIF, JPEG,
and PNG. Various object oriented Tcl extensions such as OTcl
or itcl are also supported. SSLEAY is supported. Available in
RedHat's .rpm format. The current version
supports Tcl 8.0, SSL streams, the choice of Tcl
or Xt event loop, as well as a number of new modules. Package
includes cineast, an extensible WWW browser, written using Otcl
and Wafe. Other sample applications, such as htmlEdit, cpu-bars,
gsv, pinger, xwafemail, etc. are also included.
In version v1.0.19, Tcl_Objects are supported, UTF support when
used with Tcl 8.1, Knvas widgets, Kino-2 widgets.
Updated: 07/2002
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (WaFE mailing list)
What: xgpl
Where: ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/mirror/ftp.procplace.com/sorted/packages-7.6/graphics/xgpl-1.0/xgpl-1.0.tar.gz
Description: A Tk interface to the gnuplot program.
Comes with minimal documentation - may require a Tcl/Tk
expert to deal with some of the intricacies.
Requires gnuplot 3.5.
Updated: 02/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Paul Alexander)
What: AGS
Where: http://kal-el.ugr.es/gags.html
Description: C++ Class library for Genetic algorithms.
It includes perl and/or Tcl/Tk graphic front-end.
Graphics are provided through gnuplot.
Updated: 04/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: canvas support of lightweight plotting
Where: From the contact
Description: Extension to TkPixmap to support plotting, clearing and
copying of user-defined pixmaps to a canvas.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Martin Smith)
What: DSP Megafunction Development Kit
Where: http://www.altera.com/html/mega/mega_devkit.html
Description: Altera's DSP design kit, which uses Tcl/Tk on Windows 95/NT
(and Unix) along with GNU Plot.
Updated: 07/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: function plotter
Where: http://purl.org/tcl/wiki/988.html
Description: Simple Tk proc for plotting functions.
Updated: 11/2000
Contact: Web page allows interactive submission of questions and problems.
What: gnuplot canvas commands
Where: ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/mirror/ftp.procplace.com/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/gnuplot-tkcanvas.diff.Z
Description: A patch to allow gnuplot to generate Tk canvas widget commands.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (D. Jeff Dionne)
Notes: Appears to be in recent versions of gnuplot without needing
a patch. This may be an obsolete link.
What: pgtk
Where: ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/pgtk.tgz
ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/ptcl-1.51.tar.gz
ftp://astro.caltech.edu/pub/pgplot/pgplot5.1.tar.gz
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/AAO/local/www/kgb/pgperl/
Description: pgtk was written as a way to create a platform-independent
PGPLOT display driver using the Tk canvas widget as well as
ptcl's PGPLOT Tcl bindings. Possibly obsolete.
Pgperl is a Perl 5 module to binding for PGPLOT.
Notes: PGPLOT has its own Tk driver for X-Windows; some folks object to
the PGPLOT license that restricts distribution of the PGPLOT
source code; consider PLplot [http://plplot.sourceforge.net/] as
an alternative to PGPLOT.
Updated: 08/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Brian H. Toby)
What: Plot3D
Where: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/plot3d/plot3d.html
Description: Tk plotting extension which renders into a canvas.
It only does 3D lines, not surface graphs.
Updated: 04/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (D. Richard Hipp)
What: Plotting widget for Tk
Where: ftp://dino.ph.utexas.edu/pub/plplot/
Description: The plotting widget is a part of PLPLOT,
(see "part4"). Plplot uses the GNU licensing so be aware of this.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] for mailing list.
mailto:[email protected] (Dr. Maurice LeBrun)
What: PortBox
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tcl 7.x interface to the XVT GUI toolbox. It is not a
complete encapsulation of XVT, though it may be close enough to
be useful. It is freely distributable software, even though
XVT is not. It was developed with the Macintosh's MPW 3.2+ and SCO
Motif on XVT v3.02. It has not been ported to Windows. PortBox
requires an ANSI C compiler. This is *NOT* a version of Tk for
the Macintosh or Windows.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Cecil Coupe)
What: ptcl (Elias)
Where: ftp://fornax.usno.navy.mil/dist/ptcl/ptcl.html
http://astro.caltech.edu/%7Etjp/pgplot/
Description: PGPLOT (Caltech Plotting Package commands registered as Tcl
commands.
Updated: 09/1996
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Nicholas Elias)
What: TiM
Where: http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/%7Ethiebaut/TiM/TiM.html
ftp://ftp-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/pub/thiebaut/TiM/tim4.0.tar.gz
Description: TiM is a Tcl extension designed to process 2 dimensional
arrays of binary data (referred to as a matrix). Think of it is
a MatLab-like Tcl extension. Provies arithmetic operations on
matrices, transformations, various data types, ability to read and
write binary data in little or big endian byte order, ability
to write image file formats with or without automatic compression,
plot drawing (with PLplot), and various other image manipulation
procedures.
Updated: 02/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Eric THIEBAUT)
What: tkgnuplot
Where: ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/mirror/ftp.procplace.com/sorted/packages-7.6/graphics/tkgnuplot.1.09/tkgnuplot.1.09.tar.gz
Description: A Tcl/Tk interface to the popular data plotting program.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Mark Claypool)
What: TkPlotCanvas
Where: http://starship.skyport.net/crew/hinsen/TkPlotCanvas.py
Description: Tk data plotting widget for Python.
Updated: 08/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Konrad Hinsen)
What: StatsView
Where: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/ABURLISON/StatsView-1.0.tar.gz
Description: Tool to view Solaris iostat, sar, vmstat, and vxstat statistics.
Graphing done with gnuplot and GUI done with Perl/Tk.
Updated: 04/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Alan Burlison)
What: GPLIGC
Where: http://www.uni-bremen.de/%7Ekruegerh/GPLIGC/GPLIGC.html
Description: Analyse IGC flight data from GNSS data recorders used by
glider pilots. Uses Perl/Tk and gnuplot.
Currently at version 0.19 .
Updated: 09/2001
Contact: mailto:kruegerh at uni dash bremen dot de (Hannes Krueger)
What: pTk Term::Gnuplot module
Where: http://www.cpan.org/
Description: Provides Perl/Tk a direct to canvas plotting mode.
Updated: 12/1999
Contact: Unknown
What: pTk tools by Slaven
Where: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/%7Eeserte/src/tktetris/Tetris-1.08.tar.gz
http://www.bbbike.de/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbbike/
http://pub.cs.tu-berlin.de/src/BBBike/
http://pub.cs.tu-berlin.de/src/BBBike/BBBike-2.52.tar.gz
Description: Tetris is a Perl/Tk port of the game. BBBike is a route finder
program for cyclists in Berlin written in Perl/Tk.
The script and modules have more than 15,000 lines of pTk code.
He has also written a Perl/Tk driver for gnuplot 3.7 - contact him
for it.
Updated: 09/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Slaven Rezic)
What: plop
Where: http://tpj.com/tpj/programs/Vol_1_Issue_1_Tk/plop
Description: Perl/Tk arbitrary function Plot Program. Used as part of the
pTk tutorial.
Updated: 07/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Stephen O. Lidie)
What: tkg2
Where: ftp://servdtxast.cr.usgs.gov/pub/tkg2-0.50.4-2.noarch.rpm
Description: Perl/Tk package for 2-D graphing; supports linear, log, probability
and time series plots, scatter, line, text, bar, shade, y-error
and x-y error bars, symbology, adjustable ticks, numbering, labeling,
optional grid lines and origin lines, annotation with text, lines and
symbols, multiple ascii data file inputs with unlimited delimiters,
either importation of data or pointers to data files, copy, cut, paste,
multiple plots per canvas, varying canvas sizes, batch processing of
canvas to printer or PostScript file, multiple columns of data from
multiple data files can all be loaded into one plot, output can
be saved in Data::Dumper, Storable or FreezeThaw, plots can be resized
and moved.
Updated: 10/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
What: scrollgraph
Where: ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/mirror/ftp.procplace.com/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/example/scrollgraph.tar.gz
Description: Example of adding a scrollbar to blt_graph and scale
to control magnification.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Brad Midgley)What: tkFPlot
Zmapper is a plotting program written in Tcl/Tk script. The purpose of Zmapper is to see 2-D conformal mapping plots, but it can also be used for standard plotting.
DISLIN is a commercial (free for non-commercial use) high-level plotting library for displaying data as curves, polar plots, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-color plots, surfaces, contours and maps. It can be compiled as a Tcl loadable module with a simple scripting interface.
GLI : The Graphics Language Interpreter is a free, complete graphics system that offers a versatile environment for plotting complex data sets and displaying images. GLI combines powerful interfaces, flexible graphics utilities, and an extensive set of programming tools to provide engineers, scientists and analysts a complete solution for data analysis and scientific visualization. GLI was written at the Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI) at Research Centre Jülich.
GLI comes with its own command line interpreter, within which a Tcl interpreter may be instantiated, and thenceforth sessions and scripts may be run which intermingle Tcl and GLI commands.
There is also a binding to Tk for display of generated graphics.
Histo-Scope/hs : Histo-Scope is a set of Motif widgets for plotting and graphing scientific data, developed at Fermilab. The package was improved and extended at LBNL, and wrapped in a Tcl/Tk interface called hs.
Histo-Scope/hs provides a set of highly interactive graphing and plotting widgets, especially notable for its zooming capabilities, dynamic plot updating and animation, ability to "drag-and-drop" one plot into another, and for an implementation of the "virtual trackball" method used to rotate two-dimensional histograms and three-dimensional scatter plots. By providing interface to Histo-Scope and elements of CERNLIB, the hs extension brings a high quality histogramming, data plotting, and fitting facility to tcl.
The LBNL Histo-Scope distribution made a variety of improvements to ensure publication quality output (introduced font management, support for color scale plots, ability to put simple figures on top of Histo-Scope graphics and to import EPS files into any plot, LaTeX can now be used for complex annotations, etc).
Zplot has one simple goal: to produce beautiful encapsulated postscript graphs of two-dimensional data.
Examples: [L1 ]
[L2 ]
