Makie
A data visualization ecosystem for Julia
Marie-Hélène Burle
October 26, 2022
Plotting in Julia
Many options:
- Plots.jl: high-level API for working with different back-ends (GR, Pyplot, Plotly…)
- PyPlot.jl: Julia interface to Matplotlib’s
matplotlib.pyplot
- PlotlyJS.jl: Julia interface to plotly.js
- PlotlyLight.jl: the fastest plotting option in Julia by far, but limited features
- Gadfly.jl: following the grammar of graphics popularized by Hadley Wickham in R
- VegaLite.jl: grammar of interactive graphics
- PGFPlotsX.jl: Julia interface to the PGFPlots LaTeX package
- UnicodePlots.jl: plots in the terminal 🙂
- Makie.jl: powerful plotting ecosystem: animation, 3D, GPU optimization
Makie ecosystem
Main package:
Makie
: plots functionalities. Backend needed to render plots into images or vector graphics
Backends:
CairoMakie
: vector graphics or high-quality 2D plots. Creates, but does not display plots (you need an IDE that does or you can use ElectronDisplay.jl)
GLMakie
: based on OpenGL; 3D rendering and interactivity in GLFW window (no vector graphics)
WGLMakie
: web version of GLMakie
(plots rendered in a browser instead of a window)
Cheatsheet 2D