Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961003/

Gnuplot 6.0 was released in
December 2023, bringing a host of significant improvements and new
capabilities to the open-source graphing tool. Here we survey the major
new features, including
filled contours in 3D, adaptive plotting resolution, watchpoints, clipping
of surfaces, sector plots for making things like pie charts, and new
syntax for conditionals in gnuplot’s scripting language. In addition, there
are
detailed examples of the features described.