gnuplot demo plots

Gnuplot comes with a large collection of demonstration plots. You can step through these interactively by typing the command below in gnuplot's demo/ directory — it should be part of your installation, otherwise get it from the source code archive or file-by-file from the git repository.

    gnuplot> load "all.dem"

Hint: you can get a single big PDF file of all the demo plots by the following sequence of commands, followed by hitting <enter> many times.

    gnuplot> set terminal pdf
    gnuplot> set output "all_demos.pdf"
    gnuplot> load "all.dem"
    gnuplot>

More practical on systems with a linux-like shell is the single line command

    gnuplot -e "set term pdf" all.dem < /bin/yes > all_demos.pdf

Indexed online versions of the demos are available by clicking below:

Version 5.4 demos Version 6.0 demos Development version (6.1)

External collections of gnuplot graphs

Wikimedia collection of graphs made using gnuplot
Examples of pm3d pictures and scripts by Dr. Namio Matuda.
There are plots produced by gnuplot on Octave homepage.

Gnuplot in daily use

Online weather conditions observed at the NCAR Foothills Laboratory.
Interactive form interface to X-ray scattering calculations

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