AstroBetter posts on figures

IDL

• New IDL Graphics System
• Making Fonts Better in IDL Postscript Output - AstroBetter
• IDL Magic - Berkeley Wiki
• Making Figures with IDL - Kelle Cruz
• Add Symbols and Equations to IDL Figures with LaTeX and PSfrag

Python

• RGB Images with matplotlib - Jessica Lu
• MayaVi, mplot3d - 3d plotting
• Tutorial on 3D Interactive Graphics in PDF - Josh Peek
• Veusz - interactive plotting package
• APLpy - plotting package for astronomical images

DS9

AstroBetter posts about DS9.

The application ds9 provides a quick and dirty way for making a thumbnail plot for a proposal or presentation. Just load each image into its own frame and then select "tile frames" from the frame menu. You can tile the frames in rows and columns as well using the frame->frame parameters->tile menu option. Save as an image and you're done!

SuperMongo

• Joy of SuperMongo - Rebecca Stanek
• Plotting with SuperMongo - Craig Rudick

R

• rgl, a 3d visualization package
  http://rgl.neoscientists.org/about.shtml
  http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgl/index.html

Data Visualization

• Principles of High-Dimensional Data Visualization in Astronomy - Alyssa Goodman
• An interesting talk given by Adam Bly at STScI recently on "Scientific Data Visualization", https://webcast.stsci.edu/webcast/detail.xhtml?talkid=2753&parent=1