ePiX – Util­ity for math­e­mat­i­cally ac­cu­rate, cam­era qual­ity plots and line fig­ures

ePiX is a col­lec­tion of batch-ori­ented util­i­ties for Unix-like sys­tems. It cre­ates math­e­mat­i­cally ac­cu­rate line fig­ures, plots, and movies us­ing easy-to-learn syn­tax. LaTeX and dvips com­prise the ty­po­graph­i­cal ren­der­ing en­gine, while ImageMag­ick is used to cre­ate bitmapped im­ages and an­i­ma­tions. The user in­ter­face re­sem­bles that of LaTeX it­self: you pre­pare a short scene de­scrip­tion in a text ed­i­tor, then “com­pile” the in­put file into a pic­ture. De­fault out­put for­mats are eepic (a plain text en­hance­ment to the LaTeX pic­ture en­vi­ron­ment), eps, pdf, png, and mng.