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I'm afraid I don't understand your comment - both Plots.jl as well as Makie.jl (the two most commonly used plotting packages, as far as I know) support all of t

by Sukera 6y ago

I'm afraid I don't understand your comment - both Plots.jl as well as Makie.jl (the two most commonly used plotting packages, as far as I know) support all of those things. Makie.jl does so natively, Plots.jl does so if the backend (e.g. Plotly, PyPlot) supports interactivity (the rest is available by default). Do you mind giving an example, such that this could be improved further?

rightbyte 6y ago
Ye sorry I meant in the plot window (GUI), not the scripting. For data processing of lab measurements zooming and panning, brushing, "drag to select" etc in an easy way is really convenient since you don't know where in the plot interesting stuff will be in advance. Adding titles and labels, text arrows etc is a nice extra. Matlab have quite good such capabilities, Octave is more limited (you can't add titles, labels, regression lines or brush away data points, get simple data statistics like sums or std devs like in Matlab, but you can zoom and pan, save to file etc). Julia seems to launch a Qt-window with plot, so adding some menu bar with zoom and pan shouldn't add too much bloat. E.g. exploring roots benefits from zooming a lot. EDIT: You seem to be able to switch "backend" of Plots to eg. PyPlot for some functionality I didn't know that.
- Sukera 6y ago
  Yes precisely - it's not the frontend that's doing the lifting here. The interactivity as you describe it depends on if the backend supports it, which not all do. I agree that there's room for improvement here, but I also think that it won't happen in Plots.jl (and if it does, it'll depend on a backend that already provides interactivity). I think it'll be more likely to see something like this plop out of Makie.jl or something built on top of Makie.jl, as that has a lot of primitves for interactivity available already.

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I'm afraid I don't understand your comment - both Plots.jl as well as Makie.jl (the two most commonly used plotting packages, as far as I know) support all of t

by Sukera 6y ago

rightbyte 6y ago
Ye sorry I meant in the plot window (GUI), not the scripting. For data processing of lab measurements zooming and panning, brushing, "drag to select" etc in an easy way is really convenient since you don't know where in the plot interesting stuff will be in advance. Adding titles and labels, text arrows etc is a nice extra. Matlab have quite good such capabilities, Octave is more limited (you can't add titles, labels, regression lines or brush away data points, get simple data statistics like sums or std devs like in Matlab, but you can zoom and pan, save to file etc). Julia seems to launch a Qt-window with plot, so adding some menu bar with zoom and pan shouldn't add too much bloat. E.g. exploring roots benefits from zooming a lot. EDIT: You seem to be able to switch "backend" of Plots to eg. PyPlot for some functionality I didn't know that.
- Sukera 6y ago
  Yes precisely - it's not the frontend that's doing the lifting here. The interactivity as you describe it depends on if the backend supports it, which not all do. I agree that there's room for improvement here, but I also think that it won't happen in Plots.jl (and if it does, it'll depend on a backend that already provides interactivity). I think it'll be more likely to see something like this plop out of Makie.jl or something built on top of Makie.jl, as that has a lot of primitves for interactivity available already.