Anders Hesselboms teknikblogg

Short introduction to Monkeybone

2009-10-31

The posts that I am doing on Monkeybone might only be interesting if you are develop programs that do charting or if you want to be able to produce nice looking charts. Monkeybone is a vector image format, mainly designed for producing bar charts and line charts. Monkeybone images are text files (UTF-8) that are interpretated using Regular Expressions. Each line is a drawing instruction (linefeed, \n, terminates each instruction) and arguments are separated using space. The first part of each line is the name of the drawing instruction, but arguments has no order. The format of the argument determines what the argument is. I have given the Monkeybone format an own section on the site, and I will post some examples in the blog. The image shows a simple Monkeybone image (exportet to PNG for display on this site).