Create generic pygame plotting library

[jghibiki]

Possible plot tiles

• histogram
• bar chart
• pie?

[topoftheyear]

Definitely need the bar graph given the focus on "x over time" charts. I believe the histogram would also provide useful but I can't think of any good examples right now. If you can think of stats that would be a reasonable use of a pie chart, feel free. I only really have ideas like total material-type sold as broken down by player share, only really useful to see the impact of a single player versus other players on the market though.

[jghibiki]

Histogram is more useful for "x over time" than bar charts. That is its only purpose. Bar charts are most useful for comparing disparate objects at a single slice in time, however the can be used for "over time stuff" but the size of the bar is not immediately meaningful. i.e. draw a point at the top of the bar, and remove the bar and you have a histogram.

I think histograms for each material type of buy price and sell price of items would be interesting and useful ( visual forecasting ). I could see pie charts being useful for % breakdown of materials in market, and/or % location of materials (e.g. in cargo holds, at stations, floating in space). % of criminals to lawful citizens to bounty hunters to AI law enforcement.

Additionally, a histogram showing the player vs all other players in terms of income.

[topoftheyear]

I can get behind those pie chart examples. I'd say go for it then.

[jghibiki]

Finished