Animation

Any of gnuplot's interactive terminals (qt win wxt x11 aqua) can be used to display an animation by plotting successive frames from the command line or from a script.

Several non-mousing terminals also support some form of animation. See term sixelgd, term kittycairo.

Two terminals can save an animation to a file for later playback locally or by embedding it a web page. See term gif animate, term webp.

Example:

     unset border; unset tics; unset key; set view equal xyz
     set pm3d border linecolor "black"

     set term webp animate delay 50
     set output 'spinning_d20.webp'
     do for [ang=1:360:2] {
         set view 60, ang
         splot 'icosahedron.dat' with polygons fc "gold"
     }
     unset output