Graphics Programming with Perl

1.1 Perl and Graphics......Page 26
CHAPTER 2 - Overview of graphics file formats......Page 37
CHAPTER 3 - Overview of tools and modules......Page 49
PART 2 - Creating graphics......Page 57
CHAPTER 4 - Drawing......Page 59
4.4 Drawing with TERM::GNUPLOT......Page 77
CHAPTER 5 - Creating charts......Page 82
5.1 GD::Graph and Friends......Page 84
5.1.1 Preparing your data sets for GD::Graph......Page 85
5.1.3 GD::Graph and fonts......Page 87
5.1.4 Saving your chart to a file......Page 88
5.1.5 Bar and area Charts......Page 90
5.1.6 Lines, Points and LinesPoints charts......Page 93
5.1.7 Mixed charts......Page 94
5.2 The Chart Distribution......Page 96
5.2.1 Pareto charts......Page 97
5.3 PGPLOT......Page 98
5.3.1 PGPLOT devices......Page 99
5.3.2 Example: A simple X-Y plot......Page 100
5.3.3 Example: A contour plot......Page 103
5.3.4 Example: Plotting a galaxy......Page 106
5.4 INTERFACING WITH GNUPLOT......Page 107
5.5 SUMMARY......Page 111
CHAPTER 6 - Graphics and the Web......Page 112
7.6 ANIMATED CHARTS......Page 154
8.2 COMBINING IMAGES......Page 162
8.2.3 Adding a watermark to an image......Page 167
CHAPTER 9 - Three-dimensional graphics......Page 175
APPENDIX A - Image::Magick introduction & reference......Page 263