On 10 March 2016 at 14:18, Tom Breloff <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes it's come a long way. Documentation is coming slower than > functionality (typical open source...). However I added this yesterday, > which should help answer a few questions: > http://plots.readthedocs.org/en/latest/backends/ >
According to your table PyPlot can do everything :-) I never thought PyPot was fast. I thought Matplotlib was famous for being slow. Ok. I updated Plots.jl and installed a few backends to play with (damn.. gadfly seems to depend on everything). Some scattered comments / questions: - It's looking great! Good job. - On my computer PyPlot is the default. Is that true for everyone or just me? - GR is 100x faster than PyPlot, but it's ugly. The plot is all pixelated. Is there a setting to make it look nice? The plots on the documentation look nice. - How do I try the unicode plots? I tried `unicode()` but that function doesn't exist. - Are Plotly and Gadfly supposed to just open a static plot (SVG?) on my browser? That seems weird. - I tried Immerse, but it just died on me. :-( INFO: Precompiling module Immerse... ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: UndefVarError: absolute_native_units not defined ... ERROR: Failed to precompile Immerse to /home/daniel/.julia/lib/v0.4/Immerse.ji - It's weird that the heatmap() makes hexagons on PyPlot but a regular grid on the other backends. I'll play more with Plots.jl later. But it's nice to see an attempt at a unified plotting package for Julia. Cheers, Daniel. If you want to follow the latest and greatest, the issues list is where to > go. Let me know if you have any questions... I'm happy to help. > > Tom > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Does anyone know the status of Plots.jl? It seems to have come a long >> way. At least the documentation makes it look pretty complete: >> >> http://plots.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ >> >> I'm looking at the backends. Does anyone know what "Gr", "Qwt", and >> "unicodeplots" are? Apparently support for Winston was dropped? >> >> https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/152 >> >> I don't use Winston, but I'm curious to know what happened. Was Winston >> hard to support? >> >> I am currently using PyPlot because I need the maturity of Matplotlib, >> but I am happy to see all the effort that's going into making a native >> plotting library for Julia. >> >> Cheers, >> Daniel. >> > >
