Re: matplotlib

2011-06-28 Thread Bryan R Harris
Nope, you had it right before. Matlab is commercial (and very expensive) software that the python matplotlib/scipy/numpy combination may replace for some people. The benefit of that is many people know and use matlab, so using matplotlib is familiar to them. - Bryan > Ok well on second thoug

Re: matplotlib

2011-06-28 Thread Wernher Eksteen
Ok well on second thought, MATLAB probably is MATLIB... On 28 June 2011 20:10, Wernher Eksteen wrote: > I really don't know much about MATLIB, but looking on their site it doesn't > seem free: http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/ > > I stumbled on PDL by chance and remembered someone asking

Re: matplotlib

2011-06-28 Thread Wernher Eksteen
I really don't know much about MATLIB, but looking on their site it doesn't seem free: http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/ I stumbled on PDL by chance and remembered someone asking if Perl could do this and so shared in the hope it might help. On 28 June 2011 20:01, Brendan Gilroy wrote:

Re: matplotlib

2011-06-28 Thread Brendan Gilroy
Isn't MatPlotLib free as well? I don't think PDL's low cost is a competitive advantage for Perl over Python In this Perlmonks node: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=347028 , the GD::Graphs module, and the PGPlot ( http://search.cpan.org/search?query=pgplot&mode=all) and GnuPlot ( http://search.cp

Re: matplotlib

2011-06-28 Thread Wernher Eksteen
Maybe it is of relevance after all... PDL is "free software". The authors of PDL think that this concept has several advantages: everyone has access to the sources -> better debugging, easily adaptable to your own needs, extensible for your purposes, etc... In comparison with commercial packages s

Re: matplotlib

2011-06-28 Thread Wernher Eksteen
Not sure if this is relevant, but I stumbled on this.. http://pdl.perl.org/ Wernher On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Bryan R Harris > wrote: >> >> >> I much prefer perl to python given my recent forays into that language >> (python's regex

Re: matplotlib

2011-06-23 Thread Sayth Renshaw
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Bryan R Harris wrote: > > > I much prefer perl to python given my recent forays into that language > (python's regex is awful!), however it has an excellent plotting package > that is very similar to matlab but supports things like marker alphas.  It's > called mat