About UltraPlot

History

UltraPlot began in 2025 as a fork of ProPlot, an excellent plotting package created by Luke Davis. Building upon ProPlot’s solid foundation, UltraPlot was developed to extend its capabilities with new features focused on advanced statistical visualization, enhanced interactive elements, and improved integration with modern data science workflows.

ProPlot Legacy

UltraPlot stands on the shoulders of ProPlot, which was developed by Luke Davis starting in 2021. As a PhD candidate at Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Science, Luke created ProPlot to address the challenges of repetitive and cumbersome plotting code in scientific research. ProPlot itself evolved from Luke’s earlier MATLAB plotting utilities.

Riley Brady, an early ProPlot user, made significant contributions to the original project, helping with automatic testing, PyPi deployment, and improving the new user experience.

The UltraPlot team is grateful to all ProPlot contributors who laid the groundwork for this next generation of scientific visualization tools.

Proplot’s Original Contributors