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Brplot – plotting app/lib in C

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Re: Brplot – plotting app/lib in C

#3
I love this!

There is some slight friction (headless mode still seems to require imgui), but the plots look great and I may replace some of my gnuplot scripts with brplot. It seems much better integrated in a unix workflow.

Re: Brplot – plotting app/lib in C

#4
Thanks for the post. The obvious comparison is feedgnuplot: https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot/

That works similarly in that it plots standard input. The backend is gnuplot, which is a double-edged sword: it's far more full-featured than brplot, but almost certainly is much slower also. I'll try out brplot to see if it would be a good replacement for cases where speed is important. Thanks!

Re: Brplot – plotting app/lib in C

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post #4

Thanks for the post. The obvious comparison is feedgnuplot: https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot/ That works similarly in that it plots standard input. The backend is gnuplot, which is a double-edged sword: it's far more full-featured than brplot, but almost certainly is much slower also. I'll try out brplot to see if it would be a good replacement for cases where speed is important. Thanks!

Also worth mentioning ploticus: https://ploticus.sourceforge.net

Re: Brplot – plotting app/lib in C

#10
For those wanting to try this out locally, you will need to fetch the git submodules after cloning. Other dependencies required to build are listed in the github workflow yaml definition.

Hope this saves someone some time as this is not mentioned in the readme. Cool project though.

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