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I am designing a particle physics visualization where electron accelerates in a hole and multiplies in many other electrons in a high electric field through avalanche. I know that Blender has adequate tools for this visualization such as blurring and some other features.

I however would like to do such an visualization with Gnuplot where I can use AWK inside and add a background picture like this here.

However, I am unsure about other features which I will miss if I use Gnuplot.

How can you substitute Blender with Gnuplot?

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    Gnuplot and Blender are rather different kind of program. Maybe you can want to use povray and a batch script. BTW which kind of data do you have to do the shower?
    – Hastur
    Jul 7, 2015 at 16:57
  • @hastur first generated, just random motion. After e- stream above 60keV field. Jul 7, 2015 at 16:58
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    I do not imagine what are you searching to represent (it can help to formulate an answer more complex than These are 2 different programs): usually in showers' picture there are shown: a) the particle tracks and the couple (e+e-...) creation points; b) the probability to find and electron (in different colors); c) somehow related, the speed of the electrons d) the probability of decay e) the field strength and/or direction... I continue to see it as a work for povray :)
    – Hastur
    Jul 7, 2015 at 17:16
  • Feel free to make your comment an snswer Jul 7, 2015 at 17:21

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Blender and Gnuplot are rather different kind of program.

From Blender's site you can read

It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases.

Gnuplot instead

is a portable command-line driven graphing utility

really cosy; you can create scientific plots, perfect for Latex/pdf/eps and scientific publications or thesis.

It is not able to do any 3d rendering as instead povray

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, Free Software tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics.

Povray and gnuplot can quick take advantage of bash/awk programming.

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  • How to put visual effects ect shadowing to povray after generation? In photoshop? But how well with 3d objects? Jul 7, 2015 at 18:12
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    You will put shadows etc in the generation script not after. Check the tutorial files. You will finish to love it. :)
    – Hastur
    Jul 7, 2015 at 21:33

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