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Writing a visualization library in C

I searched all over the net form visualization library in c.
But couldn't find one and c++ ones are hard to integrate.
So I thought of writing my own.
I am going to use d3js as basis.
Any helpful resources are appreciated.
what are you going to be visualizing?
Just general datasets
Like financial data.

Edited by Shazan Shums on
A few resources on library design:

Casey Muratori's "The Worst API Ever Made"
Casey Muratori's "Designing and Evaluating Reusable Components"
Sean Barrett's "stb_howto.txt"

Edited by Rayalan Kenyon on
I suggest simply generating text file in gnuplot or gpaphviz compatible format (depending on what kind of data you want to visualize) and then using command lone too to generate image, pdf file or whatever else you want. These two tools are really nice and easy to use.

Edited by Mārtiņš Možeiko on
msmshazan
I searched all over the net form visualization library in c.
But couldn't find one and c++ ones are hard to integrate.
So I thought of writing my own.
I am going to use d3js as basis.
Any helpful resources are appreciated.


Is that a poem? :-P So many newlines.
Thanks for the info.

mmozeiko
I suggest simply generating text file in gnuplot or gpaphviz compatible format (depending on what kind of data you want to visualize) and then using command lone too to generate image, pdf file or whatever else you want.


Guess no need to write a library anyways.

But if I'm doing a commercial project then..... i got to write one.

Edited by Shazan Shums on