

I'll definitely also want to draw averages (e.g. As for derivatives, I would be willing to fake it, since I'll be using fairly simple powerlaw, polynomials, and such, but it does make what big of designer I do have in me shudder. I'd prefer symbolic to numerical inputs if I had to do that. I wouldn't say "no" to creating fake data and graphing it. OmniGraffle is a great program, but I looked around in my copy a bit and thought that it would be kind of fiddly and annoying to map its concepts onto what I wanted to do. (It thinks that the line is straight, for purposes of calculating intersections.) Still, it's good enough for government work in that the results look nice and it's very easy to use for basic tasks. Response by poster: So far, GraphSketcher is very nice, but seems to get all goofy on me when I want to fill in a region, one of whose sides is curved. posted by grimmelm to Computers & Internet (10 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
#Graphsketcher for windows mac os x
I'm running Mac OS X 10.4, am willing to work with either a graphical or a command-line interface, and would prefer not to break the bank. make one curve the derivative of another.

It would be very nice to have some of the curves be mathematically related to others - e.g. Simple Grapher Plus is a graphing software for Windows that provides a simple and easy solution for your math problemsget it now from Windows Store:https://.

I just want a few suitably abstract looking curves, labeled points of interest, and maybe some shaded regions. These pictures are to illustrate a theoretical model, rather than to present the results of empirical research. I'm not looking to take existing datasets and visualize them. What software packages are good for creating this sort of picture? I care about good graphic design, but I'm not a terribly good designer, so I'd like something that has nice-looking defaults or can be tweaked to look nice fairly easily. I'd like to make a number of elegant explanatory graphs, of the sort that economists draw all the time (like these but more glamorous).
