2014/10/30 by Mark Taylor, M. B. Taylor, Taylor, M. B.
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Mathematical Software (cs.MS) #Scientific Research and Discoveries #astro-ph.IM #cs.MS
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1410.8507
4 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 2014/10/30 · openalex publication_date 2014/10/30 · arxiv updated 2014/10/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The table analysis application TOPCAT uses a custom Java plotting library for highly configurable high-performance interactive or exported visualisations in two and three dimensions. We present here a variety of ways for end users or application developers to make use of this library outside of the TOPCAT application: via the command-line suite STILTS or its Jython variant JyStilts, via a traditional Java API, or by programmatically assigning values to a set of parameters in java code or using some form of inter-process communication. The library has been built with large datasets in mind; interactive plots scale well up to several million points, and static output to standard graphics formats is possible for unlimited sized input data.