[MacRuby-devel] scientific plotting engine

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Mace
Good afternoon MacRuby'rs, Hopefully this question is not out of place, but if it is, my apologies. I just downloaded and installed MacRuby, and am new to this, although I do have an (old) background in programming as it relates to physics. I'm wondering if there is a general scientific plotti

Re: [MacRuby-devel] scientific plotting engine

2010-12-30 Thread Matt Aimonetti
Hi Jonathan, This is a very good question and it's the right place to ask. I'm personally not aware of such a lib, but if you find any Objective-C/Cocoa framework/lib to do what you need, you can use it with MacRuby. Let us know if you find one and if you need help to use it from within a MacRuby

Re: [MacRuby-devel] scientific plotting engine

2010-12-30 Thread Arthur Gunn
Hi Jonathon, http://macresearch.org if you've not already heard of it would be a good place to look for the base plotting libraries. http://www.macresearch.org/home?page=10 has a few items of interest, the most modern looks to be Core Plot: http://code.google.com/p/core-plot/ -Arthur _

Re: [MacRuby-devel] scientific plotting engine

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Mace
Thanks Matt... I'm doing some investigating. Jonathan On Dec 30, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > This is a very good question and it's the right place to ask. I'm personally > not aware of such a lib, but if you find any Objective-C/Cocoa framework/lib > to do what y

Re: [MacRuby-devel] scientific plotting engine

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Mace
Thanks Arthur... I'll be snooping around for a while, and will get back to you about this when I know more. Jonathan On Dec 30, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Arthur Gunn wrote: > Hi Jonathon, > > http://macresearch.org if you've not already heard of it would be a good > place to look for the base plotting

Re: [MacRuby-devel] scientific plotting engine

2010-12-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Dec 30, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Jonathan Mace wrote: > I just downloaded and installed MacRuby, and am new to this, although I do > have an (old) background in programming as it relates to physics. I'm > wondering if there is a general scientific plotting engine, e.g., GNUplot or > something sim

Re: [MacRuby-devel] scientific plotting engine

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Mace
Thanks Matt... I'm doing some investigating. Jonathan On Dec 30, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > This is a very good question and it's the right place to ask. I'm personally > not aware of such a lib, but if you find any Objective-C/Cocoa framework/lib > to do what y

Re: [MacRuby-devel] scientific plotting engine

2010-12-30 Thread Brian Chapados
Hi Jonathan, If you want an open source framework, use CorePlot (http://code.google.com/p/core-plot/). If you're willing to pay money for something that looks awesome, is easier to use and well-maintained, check out DataGraph (both the App and Framework: http://www.visualdatatools.com/DataGraph/F