Overview

So, you have an amazing C++ application for which you need plotting capabilities. You have searched around and discovered that the available options for C++ plotting libraries is rather limited compared to other programming languages, such as Python, for example, which has matplotlib.

The goal of the sciplot project is to enable you, C++ programmer, to conveniently plot beautiful graphs as easy as in other high-level programming languages.

Here is an example of sciplot in action:

#include <sciplot/sciplot.hpp>
using namespace sciplot;

int main()
{
    const vec x = linspace(0.0, 5.0, 100);

    plot plt;

    plt.pallete("set2");

    plt.draw(x, std::sin(x)).title("sin(x)").linewidth(8);
    plt.draw(x, std::cos(x)).title("cos(x)").linewidth(8);

    plt.show();
    plt.save("figure.pdf");
}

After compiling and executing this C++ application, the following figure should be produced:

Do you want to change the colors? Simple - just use the plot::pallete method to set your preferred color pallete. For example, plot::pallete("parula") sets the parula color scheme. All available color palletes and their names can be found here. Many thanks to Anna Schneider for this incredible work of art!

sciplot and gnuplot

All plotting capabilities of sciplot are powered by gnuplot. Your plotting code, using a modern and elegant C++ API provided by sciplot, is converted to a gnuplot script, which is then executed to generate the desired figure.

Come back soon for further instructions and demonstration.