Plotting Using PLPlot

[Jason House]

dsimcha Wrote:

> It seems like there's substantial interest in this.  Please give me some use
> cases, i.e. what would you personally use this for, and what do you foresee others
> using it for, so I can start thinking about what the API should be.  I need a wide
> variety of use cases because, if I design the API based only on my personal use
> cases, it will end up being geared entirely toward histograms, scatter plots, and
> line graphs because that's what I use regularly.
> 
> Besides use cases, here are some specific questions:
> 1.  Is there any need for an OO-based API, or should I just use free functions?
> 2.  Does anyone have any use cases where plotting is performance critical, or
> should I just keep things simple/stupid in terms of the performance/simplicity
> tradeoff?

All my plotting would be real time monitoring of program operation. While I'm performance-sensitive, I would not expect a plotting library to be terribly efficient. A seamless way to allow plotting data over a socket would be awesome. My current uses would involve two kinds of plots:
• line graphs that where I append data for the most recent timestamp. 
• bar graphs or maybe points with error bars (x axis is has labels, not numbers)