Scientific computing with D

[Chad J]

Don wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>> But fixed, compiled stuff, D is certainly the biz.  I really wish
>> there were a good plotting package for D.  That would eliminate about
>> half of my trips over to Python-land, which are just to get a quick
>> peek at what the data generated in my D program looks like.
> 
> I agree. I imagine that even something faily basic which could just
> write to a png file, or pop up an OpenGL window (ie, not publication
> quality), would cover a big chunk of the use cases.

Consider generating an svg image.  The potentially infinite granularity
is nice and it may also allow you to offload the rendering work to
something else.  All you have to do is describe where some lines,
numbers, and points need to go, while you can safely ignore working with
pixels, anti-aliasing, drawing lines, drawing circles, drawing dotted
lines, etc etc.

As it's somewhat related, I'll mention that I'm working on a library in
D that renders svg images using OpenGL.  It can currently trace lines,
rectangles, and circles, and more or less understands svg's nesting
hierarchy and mathematical transformations.  I'll try to finish off all
of the filling, blending, stroking, and such things this Spring quarter.
 The license will be something liberal (zlib/freebsd/etc).