Gnuplot permite realizar las siguientes tareas:

[jadebustos@dedalo ~]$ gnuplot


        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.0 patchlevel 0
        last modified Thu Apr 15 14:44:22 CEST 2004
        System: Linux 2.6.17.8

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        Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others

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        throughout the 4.0 series, but all save files use the new syntax.

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Terminal type set to 'x11'
gnuplot> set dummy u,v
gnuplot> set angles degrees
gnuplot> set parametric

        dummy variable is t for curves, u/v for surfaces
gnuplot> set view 70, 40, 0.8, 1.2
gnuplot> set samples 32, 32
gnuplot> set isosamples 9, 9
gnuplot> set mapping spherical
gnuplot> set yzeroaxis linetype 0 linewidth 1.000
gnuplot> set ticslevel 0
gnuplot> set title "3D version using spherical coordinate system" 
gnuplot> set urange [ -90.0000 : 90.0000 ] noreverse nowriteback
gnuplot> set vrange [ 0.00000 : 360.000 ] noreverse nowriteback
gnuplot> splot cos(u)*cos(v),cos(u)*sin(v),sin(u) with lines lt 5 ,'world.dat' with lines lt 3 
gnuplot> 

Representación del globo terraqueo con Gnuplot.