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Gnuplot for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    Gnuplot 6.0.2 LATEST

  • Review by

    Juan Garcia

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X 10.11 or later

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  • Author / Product

    Gnuplot Team / External Link

  • Filename

    gnuplot-6.0.2.tar.gz

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Gnuplot for Mac is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for macOS and many other platforms.

The source code is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively, but has grown to support many non-interactive uses such as web scripting.

It is also used as a plotting engine by third-party applications like Octave. It has been supported and under active development since 1986. Gnuplot supports many different types of 2D and 3D plots!

It supports many different types of output

Interactive screen display:
cross-platform (Qt, wxWidgets, x11) or system-specific (MS Windows, OS/2)

Direct output to file:
postscript (including eps), pdf, png, gif, jpeg, LaTeX, metafont, emf, svg...

Mouseable web display formats:
HTML5, svg

What does Gnuplot for macOS offer?
  • Two-dimensional functions and data plots combining many different elements such as points, lines, error bars, filled shapes, labels, arrows, ...
  • Polar axes, log-scaled axes, general nonlinear axis mapping, parametric coordinates
  • Data representations such as heat maps, beeswarm plots, violin plots, histograms, ...
  • Three-dimensional plots of data points, lines, and surfaces in many different styles (contour plot, mesh)
  • Algebraic computation using integer, floating point, or complex arithmetic
  • Data-driven model fitting using Marquardt-Levenberg minimization
  • Support for a large number of operating systems, graphics file formats and output devices
  • Extensive on-line help
  • TEX-like text formatting for labels, titles, axes, data points
  • Interactive command line editing and history
The current development version will generally include features that are not yet part of the most recent stable release of gnu plot.

How to Use

Install using the package or terminal command brew install gnuplot

Open Terminal and type gnuplot to launch the interactive shell

Use plot or splot commands to visualize data sets

Load scripts using load 'filename.plt' for complex plotting

Export graphs using set terminal and set output commands

Use help command for built-in documentation and examples

System Requirements
  • macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later
  • Intel or Apple Silicon (via Rosetta or native build)
  • X11 (XQuartz) for some terminal outputs
  • Command Line Tools or Homebrew for installation
  • 100 MB of free disk space
PROS
  • Supports 2D and 3D plotting
  • Highly customizable plotting styles
  • Scriptable for automation and batch processing
  • Wide range of output formats supported
  • Cross-platform and open-source
CONS
  • Lacks a graphical user interface
  • Minimal real-time interactivity
  • Limited built-in data manipulation
  • Requires terminal or script usage
Also Available: Download Gnuplot for Windows

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  • Gnuplot 6.0.2 Screenshots

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    Gnuplot 6.0.2 Screenshot 1

What's new in this version:

Changed:
- Local variables are reimplemented to provide a better-defined scope and faster evaluation of function blocks
- Existing plot styles steps, histeps, fsteps, and fillsteps are reimplemented to use the new hsteps code
- Boxplot outlier position (horizontal displacement) is controlled by "set jitter"
- The content of $GPVAL_LAST_MULTIPLOT is appended to the output from "save" so that loading the saved file regenerates a full multiplot rather than only the final component

Fixed:
- reworked generation of logscale axis tic marks
- Do not save extraneous commands to $GPVAL_LAST_MULTIPLOT
- svg: modify gnuplot_svg.js to work in local standalone mode
- wxt: release per-thread font data before entering "persist"
- "set table": honor "nosurface" keyword in splot
- "set table": honor "set format z" when z is printed from plot
- better contouring near the edge of a z-clipped surface
- handle mousing of logscale axes in inactive plot windows
- "set tics scale" does not change other axis tick properties
- points with variable color value NaN should not be drawn
- "set term tikz nostandalone" should suppress the latex wrapper
- handle unusual case of intersecting pm3d surfaces
- prevent use-after-free if a function block has no "return"

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