This is a guest post by Jeremy Sanders about the plotting package he’s developed. Jeremy is a postdoc working in the X-Ray Group at the Institute of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge in the UK.
Veusz (pronounced “views”) is a python-based GUI plotting package that I (Jeremy Sanders) have developed. As an astronomer, I was dissatisfied with every plotting package I had used. Some were fairly easy to use but old fashioned and/or limited (e.g., qdp, sm, grace, gnuplot). Several were not licensed freely (e.g., sm, idl). Many were difficult to use, requiring libraries of other peoples’ code or a lot of work going through manuals (e.g. idl). I wanted a free, easy to use and powerful package and so I started writing Veusz in 2004. Although I initially found the command line interface to be the most important part of a plotting package, since developing Veusz, I now use its GUI almost exclusively as it’s rather powerful and easy to use.
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