Welcome to Makie!
Makie is a high-performance, extendable, and multi-platform plotting ecosystem for the Julia programming language.
Installation and Import
Add one or more of the Makie backend packages GLMakie.jl
(OpenGL), CairoMakie.jl
(Cairo), or WGLMakie.jl
(WebGL).
]add GLMakie
using GLMakie
If you want to switch to a different backend in a running session, call that backend's activate!
function.
]add CairoMakie
using CairoMakie
# if, for example, GLMakie is activated already
CairoMakie.activate!()
First Steps
- Learn the basics of plotting with Makie in the Basic Tutorial
- Check out how to make more complex plots and layouts in the Layout Tutorial
- See examples of many plotting functions under Plotting Functions.
These docs were autogenerated using:
- AbstractPlotting: v0.15.22
- GLMakie: v0.1.27
- CairoMakie: v0.3.16
If you encounter errors with the code examples, check first that your installed versions are appropriate.
Makie Ecosystem
Package | Description |
---|---|
AbstractPlotting.jl | Defines all infrastructure objects which can be visualized using one of the three backend packages. |
GLMakie.jl | GPU-powered, interactive 2D and 3D plotting in standalone GLFW.jl windows. |
CairoMakie.jl | Cairo.jl based, non-interactive 2D backend for publication-quality vector graphics. |
WGLMakie.jl | WebGL-based interactive 2D and 3D plotting that runs within browsers. |
The differences between backends are explained in more details under Backends & Output.
Extension Packages
These packages are maintained by third parties. If you install them, keep an eye on version conflicts or downgrades as the Makie ecosystem is developing quickly so things break occasionally.
Package | Description |
---|---|
AlgebraOfGraphics.jl | Grammar-of-graphics style plotting, inspired by ggplot2. |
GeoMakie.jl | Geographic plotting utilities. Currently not maintained. |
Getting Help
- Use the REPL
?
help mode. - Click this link to open a preformatted topic on the Julia Discourse Page. If you do this manually, please use the category Domain/Visualization and tag questions with
Makie
to increase their visibility. - For casual conversation about Makie and its development, have a look at the
#makie
channel in the Julia Slack group. Please direct your usage questions to Discourse and not to Slack, to make questions and answers accessible to everybody. - For technical issues and bug reports, open an issue in the Makie.jl repository which serves as the central hub for AbstractPlotting and backend issues.