VTK/Charts
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Goals
- Render 2D charts using OpenGL/VTK
- Scalable to large data sets
- Simple, flexible API
- Enable server side rendering of charts with VTK compositing
- Proper handling of IEEE Not-A-Number (NaN) values in plots of both experimental and simulation data.
Open Questions
- Alternate backend to produce publication quality output?
- Possibility to extend the API to 3D charts in the future?
- Maybe real-time charting? (just-in-time visualization of data sets)
Further Details on API
Please see VTK/Charts/API for a discussion about the API. There is also more detail about the VTK/Charts/2DAPI and the VTK/Charts/ChartAPI along with proposed class relationships. VTK/Marks discusses options for a protovis-like API in VTK, that would build on the 2D API.
Chart Types
- XY plot
- Scatter
- Bar chart
- Histogram
- Stack chart
- Pie chart
- Parallel axes
- Tree map
- Bubble chart
Existing Applications/Libraries
Below is a summary of different libraries or applications that produce 2D charts and plots. Those listed either provide both screen and publication quality rendering, or just screen rendering.
Optimized for Screen Rendering
- prefuse
- tableau
- Many Eyes
- Google Chart
- Qwt
- QwtPlot3D
- QPlotter
- ggobi
- ZedGraph
- TeeChart
- Iocomp
- Scientific charting control
- ChartDirector
- Dundas
- Visifire
- core-plot
- Protoviz