[NCLUG] GD Charting Tutorials

Michael D. Wailes mwailes at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 21 16:54:51 MST 2008


Have you looked at protocharts?

Dave Treece wrote:
> Curiosity getting the best of me, but can anyone recommend a good book 
> or web site that can explain in somewhat basic terms the process of 
> building charts? Generally I'd like something that referenced the use 
> of GD, but, really that shouldn't be necessary. I know there are lots 
> of libraries out there, but I'd really like to get into the nuts and 
> bolts. For example, given a set of data points, how do you map all 
> that into a specific area, define they limits, scale the data into 
> those limits, define a viewport, extents, etc. I guess I'm looking for 
> some basic concepts that could be applied to just about any language 
> with graphical/charting capabilities. I used to have a book that 
> defined some of these concepts and for the life of me I cannot find it 
> anywhere in my library and I've yet to find anything on Amazon, or the 
> web the just does that.
>
> Any Ideas?
> -- 
>   Dave Treece
>     <incredibly philosophical sig under construction>
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