VFD (Vernacular Figure Description) is a JSON-based description system for plots. It aims to describe what needs to be plotted, while how it is done is decided when the files are opened. This allows to generate a set of files describing the plots, which can latter be batch-processed to produce a consistent set of figures.
Also check http://github.com/dih5/vfd/tree/master/external for tools to use it from other applications.
- Free software: LGPLv3+
- Documentation: https://vfd.readthedocs.io.
- Describe and plot:
- Scatter plots
- Error bars
- Color maps (from arrays of 2D data)
- Multiple plots in one file
- Two x or y axes in the same plot
- GUI, CLI and python package to plot the files with matplotlib.
- API mimicking matplotlib's to generate files without changing your code.
- File format will be always backward-compatible. While version < 1.0.0, CLI and API might change.
To install the latest release, assuming you have a Python distribution with pip:
$ pip install vfd
Windows users with no interest in Python might use the deployed installer instead.
If you want to enable bash autocompletion add eval "$(_VFD_COMPLETE=source vfd)" to your .bashrc file.