Cinderplot is a small, fast, grammar-inspired plotting tool written in C. It turns a CSV/TSV into publication-ready PDF, SVG or PNG graphics with Cairo and keeps the runtime and dependency footprint deliberately small — one binary, no language runtime, Cairo and zlib the only link-time dependencies.
Five modes, chosen by which verbs appear: the grammar (aes() +
geom_*()), a heatmap with clustering and anchor-placed objects, a
genome locus browser of stacked tracks over one or more windows, a
Newick tree, and a chord diagram of from/to/value links.
The project is an early prototype. Its current plotting grammar is inspired by ggplot2, but Cinderplot is an independent implementation rather than a drop-in replacement.
Documentation & gallery: https://zhou-lab.github.io/cinderplot/
From the zhou-lab conda channel:
conda install -c zhou-lab -c conda-forge cinderplotA condensed, agent-oriented reference lives at llms.txt — the grammar, the five modes and the behavioural traps in a fraction of the tokens the HTML docs cost. Point your agent at that URL rather than the gallery.
MIT — see LICENSE.