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Welcome to Makie!

Makie is a high-performance, extendable, and multi-platform plotting ecosystem for the Julia programming language.

Installation and Import

]add Makie
using Makie

Makie.jl bundles AbstractPlotting.jl and the GLMakie.jl backend. If you want to use a different backend like CairoMakie, add and import AbstractPlotting as well:

]add AbstractPlotting, CairoMakie
using AbstractPlotting
using CairoMakie

CairoMakie.activate!() # only if a different backend is active already

First Steps

Learn the basics of plotting with Makie in the Tutorial
Check out how to make more complex plots and layouts in the MakieLayout Tutorial
See example plots in the gallery.

Makie Ecosystem

Package	Description
`AbstractPlotting.jl`	Defines all infrastructure objects which can be visualized using one of the three backend packages.
`GLMakie.jl`	Default Makie backend. 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.

Extension Packages

Package	Description
`AlgebraOfGraphics.jl`	Grammar-of-graphics style plotting, inspired by ggplot2.
`GeoMakie.jl`	Geographic plotting utilities.

Getting Help

Use the REPL ? help mode
Join the #makie channel in the Julia Slack group.
Open an issue in the Makie.jl repository.