GNUPlot

1. Platforms, prices, and company

• UNIX, IBM OS/2, MS Windows, DOS, Apple Macintosh, VMS, Atari, and others
• Price: Freeware
• Product's Web site: http://www.gnuplot.info

2. Applications

• Gnuplot is a 2-D and 3-D plotting tool that has many settings to fine-tune your plots. It is a command-driven interactive function plotting program.

3. Examples/Samples

• 2D Plots: http://www.cs.uni.edu/Help/gnuplot/2dplots.html
• 3D Plots: http://www.cs.uni.edu/Help/gnuplot/3dplots.html
  • Hidden 3D Views: http://www.cs.uni.edu/Help/gnuplot/hidden3d.html
  • Increasing Precision of 3D Plots: http://www.cs.uni.edu/Help/gnuplot/isosamples.html
  • Adding Contour Lines: http://www.cs.uni.edu/Help/gnuplot/contours.html
  • Changing Perspectives: http://www.cs.uni.edu/Help/gnuplot/views.html
• Akira Ohnishi Library: http://nucl.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~ohnishi/gnuplot.html

4. Web Resources

• Introduction to GNUPlot: http://www.cs.uni.edu/Help/gnuplot/
• Visualize Your Data with GNUPlot: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-gnuplot/
• GNUPlot: Not so FAQ: http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/index-e.html
• How to make your data look neat and shiny: http://mos.stanford.edu/papers/Plotting.pdf
• GNU-Plot 3.4 Quick Reference: http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/use/suppl/gpcard.html
• Resources: http://www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/~breiter/tools/gnuplot/index.en.html
• GNUPlot 4.0 Tutorial: http://www.duke.edu/~hpgavin/gnuplot.html
• Online Tutorial: http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Gnuplot/
• SourceForge Development: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/

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