Fast plotting?

[Paul F. Kunz]

William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> writes:

> Russell E. Owen <rowen at cesmail.net> wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a fast cross-platform plotting package for 2-D 
> > plots?
> > 
> > Our situation:
> > We are driving an instrument that outputs data at 20Hz. Control is via 
> > an existing Tkinter application (which is being extended for this new 
> > instrument) that runs on unix, mac and windows. We wish to update 5-10 
> > summary plots at approximately 2 Hz and will be offering controls to 
> > control the instrument and the plots, preferably (but not necessarily) 
> > mixed in with the plots.
> 
> That's 10-20 plots per second.  The only GUI plotter that I know is
> 'gnuplot', and I don't know if it will spit out anything at 10-20Hz.
> For character plots (like old days terminal), it has speed but ugly to
> look at.
> 
   HippoDraw is quite fast and scriptable from Python

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/ek/hippodraw