[lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot

[Evelyn Mitchell]

* On 2006-10-11 20:59 Daniel Webb <lists at danielwebb.us> wrote:
> It stinks for publishing 3D data in black and white (like journals).  No 3D
> bar plots.  No ability to print the contour level on the contours (like a topo
> map).  How stupid is that to have to look over at a legend to figure out which
> of the 8 slightly different kinds of dotted lines correspond to which level?
> 
> Know of anything better for 3D that runs on Linux?
> 
R does lovely plots:
   http://www.r-project.org/
   http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/screenshots.html

3d bar charts, unless your data actually has 3 dimensions, are terribly
misleading.

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