OmniGraphSketcher was a software application from The Omni Group for creating quantitative diagrams. It allowed users to plot data and draw freehand curves, filled areas, and text labels on a coordinate plane. It was available from March 2009 through July 2013.
OmniGraphSketcher had its origins in Graph Sketcher, a Mac OS X application created by Robin Stewart that was first commercially released in 2006.[1][2] The software was influenced by Stewart's academic research integrating data plotting with freehand illustration user interfaces.[3][4]
The Omni Group acquired Graph Sketcher in 2008 and launched OmniGraphSketcher for Mac in March 2009,[5][6] followed by an iPad version in April 2010.[7]
In July 2013, the Omni Group discontinued OmniGraphSketcher, and in January 2014 released its source code under an open-source license as GraphSketcher.[8][9]
Reception
Outlets such as Macworld, MacUser, and MacNN described OmniGraphSketcher as "one of those programs that does one thing and does it very well."[10] Most rated it 4/5, appreciating the simplicity of making graphs but noting some limitations and interface glitches with the iPad version.[11][12][13]
↑ Robin Stewart; m.c. schraefel (2009). "Graph Sketcher: Extending Illustration to Quantitative Graphs". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. pp.1113–1116. doi:10.1145/1518701.1518870.
↑ Mei, Honghui; Ma, Yuxin; Wei, Yating; Chen, Wei (2018). "The design space of construction tools for information visualization: A survey". Journal of Visual Languages & Computing. 44. Elsevier: 120–132. doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.10.001.
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