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Incplot – make attractive plots

Incplot is a command like tool for drawing great looking plots in the terminal using Unicode characters.

Automatically infers what to display and how based on the data piped in.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Great looking plots ‘out of the box’.
  • Zero configuration required, super simple to use.
  • No command line arguments necessary most of the time due to automatic inference.
  • Users can optionally specify some or all arguments in any (sensible) combination.
  • Accepts piped in data in JSON, JSON Lines, NDJSON, CSV, TSV.
  • Fast.
  • Powerful coloring support through integrated color schemes.
  • Powerful ability to ‘grab’ currently used colors/scheme from the user’s terminal and use it (if supported by the terminal app) with sensible fallback.
  • Automatic but configurable filtering of extreme values.
  • Automatic sizing.
  • Automatic value labels and scaling with metric prefixes.
  • Automatic string label sizing (ie. shortening where necessary).
  • Automatic tickmarks.
  • Automatic legend.
  • Reasonable error messages (especially when the user asks for something that is impossible/unsupported).
  • Cross platform support (Linux, macOS, and Windows).

Website: github.com/InCom-0/incplot
Support:
Developer: Michal Lurie
License: MIT License

Incplot
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Incplot is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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