[cairo] CairoPlot, ploting graphics with Python and PyCairo

Rodrigo Araújo alf.rodrigo at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 04:20:15 PDT 2008


Thanks everyone :D

I already knew MatPlotLib but the idea, as you understood, was to create
beautiful plots in a simpler way not intended to scientific papers but for
more visual appealing spaces like blogs.

So, thanks for the compliments. I'll try to improve it in the next few weeks
and we'll look for some appropriate place on the site to link.

Regards,
Rodrigo Araújo

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 2008/7/1 Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > 2008/7/1 Rodrigo Araújo <alf.rodrigo at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >>
>> >> My name is Rodrigo and I've been using PyCairo for a while now, and
>> would
>> >> like to congratulate everyone
>> >> responsible for this library, it simply works.
>> >>
>> >> So, that said, I've developed a plotting library using Python and
>> PyCairo.
>> >
>> > Not trying to put you down, but there is the excellent matplotlib
>> already,
>> > which has an optional gtk/cairo backend.
>>
>> I love matplotlib, but still you have to admit his graphs look a hell
>> of a lot sexier than the defaults spit out by Matplotlib.
>>
>
> Indeed they do.  But for scientific publications you do _not_ want sexy
> looking graphics; it's a matter of scientific culture.
>
>
>>
>> Nice work Rodrigo!
>
>
> Yes, very nice work.  I won't write papers with it, but for anything else I
> now know what to use :-)
>
> --
> Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
> INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
> "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert
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