PV-WAVE provides a tremendous variety of displays and plots, including:

2D, 3D and 4D plots   2D and 3D contours   animation   2D, 3D and 4D vector plots   wire mesh surfaces   wire mesh surfaces   wire mesh surfaces   shaded surfaces   Z-buffered graphics   isosurfaces   2D and 3D polygons   polar plots   time series graphs   scatter plots   ray-tracing   volumetric display   histograms   log/linear scaling   image display   colormap manipulation   color lookup tables   error graphs   calendar axes   translucency   opacity   maximum intensity projection   mapping projections   RGB-HSV-HLS   glyphs   annotation   OpenGL graphics using the Visualization Toolkit (VTK)

These plot types and functions are frequently accessed using as little as one instruction, and multiple plots can be readily combined to provide additional insight into your data.