ScottPlot/ScottPlot

Features

• Interactive Plotting Frameworks - Provides interactive charting for .NET with pan, zoom, and real-time exploration across desktop and web frameworks.
• Windows Forms Plot Controls - Provides a dedicated FormsPlot control for rendering line, bar, and scatter charts in Windows Forms.
• Statistical Visualizers - Displays statistical distributions, regression lines, histograms, box plots, and probability density estimates.
• Bar Charts - Provides bar chart creation from categorical or numerical data with simple method calls.
• Stacked and Grouped Bar Plots - Ships bar plots with stacking, grouping, error bars, and custom labels for comparative data.
• Plot Axis Customizers - Offers extensive customization of plot appearance including colors, labels, titles, and axis limits.
• Scientific Plot Customizers - Offers scientific-grade customization of axes, ticks, labels, colormaps, annotations, and coordinate systems.
• Histogram Plotters - Provides built-in histogram plotting with binning, frequency bars, and cumulative curve display.
• High-Performance Visualizers - Renders millions of data points with interactive pan, zoom, and live data streaming.
• Graphics Rendering Pipelines - Core rendering pipeline that processes draw commands through coordinate transforms and clipping for pixel output.
• Data-to-Pixel Coordinate Transforms - Core rendering capability that maps data coordinates to pixel positions for all plot types.
• Image Exports - Export the current chart to a PNG file at a specified size for sharing or storage.
• Rendering Pipelines - Implements a multi-stage rendering pipeline that processes draw commands through coordinate transforms and clipping.
• Desktop and Web Control Wrappers - Core integration layer that wraps the rendering engine into platform-specific controls for all supported frameworks.
• Plot Annotations - Places always-visible text annotations over the data area in pixel coordinates.
• Scatter Plot Rendering - Renders scatter plots from arrays or lists with customizable markers, lines, and styles.
• Signal Plot Rendering - Renders evenly-spaced Y values with optimizations for interactive display of millions of points.
• Multi-Chart Type Libraries - Supports scatter, line, bar, pie, heatmap, financial, radar, polar, and statistical chart types.
• Multi-Framework Plot Embedders - Embeds interactive plot controls in Windows Forms, WPF, MAUI, Avalonia, Blazor, and WinUI applications.
• .NET Interactive Plotting Libraries - Provides an interactive charting library for .NET rendering scatter, line, bar, and statistical plots across GUI frameworks.
• Large Dataset Optimizations - Renders and interactively explores large datasets with millions of data points without performance degradation.
• Plotting Components - Draws lines between coordinate points with customizable style, markers, and legend support.
• Line Plots - Draws lines between coordinate points with customizable style, markers, and legend support.
• SkiaSharp - Core rendering layer that uses SkiaSharp for hardware-accelerated cross-platform 2D graphics.
• Cross-Platform - Embeds interactive plots in Windows Forms, WPF, Avalonia, MAUI, Blazor, and WinUI applications.
• Cross-Platform GUI Frameworks - Renders the same chart code across Windows Forms, WPF, Blazor, and Avalonia without modification.
• Self-Rendering Chart Elements - Core architectural pattern where each chart element manages its own rendering and styling independently.
• Text Labels - Places formatted text labels at any coordinate location with extensive offset options.
• Desktop and Web Control Wrappers - Core integration layer that enables the same charting engine to work across all supported GUI frameworks.
• Kernel Density Estimation - Implements Kernel Density Estimation to estimate probability density functions from histograms.
• Linear Regression - Fits linear regression lines to X/Y data points for statistical trend analysis.
• Heatmap Visualization - Renders 2D data as colored grids with custom colormaps, transparency, and axis alignment.
• Blazor Plot Components - Provides a BlazorPlot component for embedding interactive charts in Blazor WebAssembly pages.
• Chart Annotations - Place an arrow pointing to a specific location in coordinate space, with extensive customization options.
• Box Plots - Shows distribution statistics from collections of values using customizable box and whisker symbols.
• Lollipop Plots - Offers lollipop plots as a less cluttered alternative to standard bar charts.
• Pie Charts - Provides pie and donut chart creation with customizable labels, rotation, and hatch styles.
• Data Markers - Places symbols at coordinate locations with customizable shape, size, color, and legend support.
• Function Plots - Plots lines defined by mathematical formulas over a range of X values.
• Grid Composition Tools - Arranges multiple plots in grid layouts with shared axes and alignment control within a single figure.
• Error Bar Visualizations - Displays error bars paired with scatter plots to show measurement uncertainty ranges.
• Layout Customizers - Controls data area size, padding, and frame visibility for customized plot layouts.
• Legend Management - Includes legend management with support for manual items, multiple legends, wrapping, and custom fonts.
• Plot Styling Configurators - Provides comprehensive plot styling including dark mode, colormaps, and font configuration.
• FillY Plots - Shades vertical ranges between two Y values at defined X positions for area visualization.
• Population Plotters - Ships a population plot type for comparing distributions of individual values with statistical symbols.
• Chart Annotations - Annotate a linear range of data with a bracket symbol in coordinate space.
• Evenly-Spaced Data Renderers - Optimizes rendering of evenly-spaced data for interactive display of millions of points.
• Shape Drawing - Draws basic geometric shapes like rectangles, circles, ellipses, polygons, arcs, and sectors.
• Contour Plots - Draws contour lines from 2D or irregular 3D data to represent surfaces on a plane.
• Axis Span Lines - Draws vertical or horizontal lines spanning the full axis with optional labels and styling.
• Axis Span Shading - Shades vertical or horizontal ranges across the full axis to highlight regions of interest.
• Financial Charting - Renders candlestick and OHLC financial charts with moving averages and Bollinger Bands.
• MAUI Chart Controls - Provides chart controls that can be embedded in .NET MAUI applications.
• Avalonia Plot Controls - Provides an Avalonia-specific plot control for embedding interactive charts in desktop applications.
• Uno Platform Plot Controls - Provides an Uno Platform plot control for rendering interactive line and scatter plots with large datasets.
• MVVM Architectures - Provides MVVM integration by binding plot controls to view model properties for UI separation.
• Incremental Rendering Updates - Optimizes rendering for live data streams with incremental updates that minimize redraw overhead.
• DateTime Axis Tick Labels - Formats axis tick labels as DateTime strings for time-based data visualization.
• Scale Bar Annotations - Displays scale bars to convey axis scale while allowing axis frames and ticks to be hidden.
• Chart Annotations - Display a label connected by an arrow to a specific point on the plot.
• Chart Crosshairs - Marks coordinate locations with combined horizontal and vertical axis lines.
• Data Point Tooltips - Places tooltip annotations pointing to specific X/Y coordinates with customizable styling.
• Stacked Area Charts - Combines primitive shapes to create stacked line charts with multiple vertically stacked series.
• Axis Tick Formatters - Controls tick positions, label formats, density, rotation, and grid lines for any chart axis.
• Declarative Interactive Elements - Ships draggable plot elements that respond to mouse input without requiring manual event handling code.
• Shared-Axis Grid Compositions - Provides a grid layout system for arranging multiple plots with shared axes and alignment.
• Draggable Plot Elements - Provides draggable lines, markers, spans, and rectangles that respond to mouse input without manual event wiring.
• Desktop Plot Embeds - Ships an Eto-compatible plot control for embedding charts in cross-platform desktop forms.
• Live Data Plots - Displays datasets that change in real time with automatic axis limit control.
• WinUI Chart Controls - Provides chart controls that can be embedded in WinUI applications.
• WPF Chart Controls - Provides chart controls that can be embedded in WPF applications.

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