gnuplot demo plots

You can see plenty of live screenshots if you run gnuplot interactively and type command

    gnuplot> load "all.dem"

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 cvs.

Hint: you can get a single big postscript file of all the demo plots by the following sequence of commands

    gnuplot> set terminal postscript color solid
    gnuplot> set output "all_demos.ps"
    gnuplot> load "all.dem"
    gnuplot> set output
    gnuplot> set terminal pop

Indexed online versions available by clicking below:

Version 4.0 demos Version 4.2 demos CVS Version demos

gnuplot screenshots

Screenshots from interactive terminals

First of all — how does gnuplot icon look like? Here it is:

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It is meant to be the face of a gnu superimposed on a plot. It was based on a careful study of the small herd of black wildebeest in a field on the lower mountain slopes about a kilometre from Cape Town.

Operating system or Front-end Application Gnuplot command Screenshots

Any X Window (X11) server
e.g. Unix, Linux, OS/2, MacOS X, cygwin under MS Windows set terminal x11 test and sinc

Presentation Manager under OS/2 or eComStation set terminal pm curves, map, and surface

MS Windows set terminal windows butterly and hidden3d and pm3d

Macintosh MacOS X aquaterm home page set terminal aqua gnuplot+octave

Octave www.octave.org gnuplot+octave

Emacs gnuplot-mode emacs session

SAGE sage.scipy.org SAGE session

Screenshots from some viewers/editors of gnuplot output files

Output terminal	Gnuplot command	Viewer
fig graphics language	`set terminal fig`	Xfig under X11
PNG – Portable Network Graphics format	`set terminal png`	`test` command
PDF – Portable Document Format	`set terminal pdf`	In Acrobat Reader (raw pdf here)
SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics format	`set terminal svg`	Mozilla, KDE 3.2, and editing in sodipodi

Note: gif output format is not supported for patent reasons, see faq. Use png instead.

Miscellaneous screenshots

There are Rosenbrock valleys here.
There are plots produced by gnuplot on Octave homepage.
Une belle fille – gnuplot peut tracer n'importe quelle courbe depuis un fichier de donnés adéquat
(A beatiful girl – gnuplot can plot any curve from a suitable datafile).
Examples of pm3d pictures and scripts by Dr. Namio Matuda.

Gnuplot in daily use

Weather situation — daily rain falls and climate maps provided by NASA.
Online weather conditions observed at the NCAR Foothills Laboratory.
Interactive form interface to X-ray scattering calculations

Gnuplot in publications

Number of publications and books using graphics produced by gnuplot cannot be enumerated — there are really so many, mainly in scientific works. Maybe just few, which are freely available on the web:

Gnuplot and pm3d used for Wireless Detection and Tracking.

Go back to gnuplot homepage.

Version: March 2007.

Operating system or Front-end Application	Gnuplot command	Screenshots
Any X Window (X11) server e.g. Unix, Linux, OS/2, MacOS X, cygwin under MS Windows	`set terminal x11`	test and sinc
Presentation Manager under OS/2 or eComStation	`set terminal pm`	curves, map, and surface
MS Windows	`set terminal windows`	butterly and hidden3d and pm3d
Macintosh MacOS X aquaterm home page	`set terminal aqua`	gnuplot+octave
Octave www.octave.org		gnuplot+octave
Emacs gnuplot-mode		emacs session
SAGE sage.scipy.org		SAGE session