Vernacular Figure Description

VFD (Vernacular Figure Description) is a JSON-based description system for plots. It aims to describe what needs to be plotted, while how it is done is decided when the files are opened. This allows to generate a set of files describing the plots, which can latter be batch-processed to produce a consistent set of figures.

Also check http://github.com/dih5/vfd/tree/master/external for tools to use it from other applications.

• Free software: LGPLv3+
• Documentation: https://vfd.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Describe and plot:

  • Scatter plots
  • Error bars
  • Color maps (from arrays of 2D data)
  • Multiple plots in one file
  • Two x or y axes in the same plot

• GUI, CLI and python package to plot the files with matplotlib.
• API mimicking matplotlib’s to generate files without changing your code.
• File format will be always backward-compatible. While version < 1.0.0, CLI and API might change.

Instalation

To install the latest release, assuming you have a Python distribution with pip:

$ pip install vfd

Windows users with no interest in Python might use the deployed installer instead.

If you want to enable bash autocompletion add eval "$(_VFD_COMPLETE=source vfd)" to your .bashrc file.