With its core symbolic paradigm and immediate access to sophisticated numerical, symbolic, and geometric algorithms, the Wolfram Language is able to provide a uniquely flexible and unified framework for creating perceptually powerful graphics from functions and data—and for algorithmically highlighting features while maintaining aesthetic integrity.

Overall Appearance

PlotTheme — pick an overall visual theme (minimal, scientific, detailed, web, ...)

Main Styling Elements

PlotStyle — styles for points, curves, and surfaces

PlotMarkers — markers for discrete data points

Joining

Joined — whether to join points to make lines

Filling

Filling — what filling to add under points, curves, and surfaces

FillingStyle  ▪  ClippingStyle  ▪  BoundaryStyle

Coloring »

ColorFunction — a function for coloring curves or surfaces

ColorRules  ▪  ColorFunctionScaling  ▪  Blend  ▪  ColorData  ▪  ...

Legends »

PlotLegends — legends for points, curves, and surfaces

Labeling

PlotLabels — labels for points and curves

PlotHighlighting — highlight and label plot elements

Textures

TextureCoordinateFunction — texture coordinates to use for surfaces

Texture  ▪  TextureCoordinateScaling  ▪  ExampleData

Mesh Display

Mesh — what mesh lines, points, etc. to include

MeshStyle — the style for mesh lines, points, etc.

MeshShading — array of shadings for mesh patches

MeshFunctions — functions to define families of mesh lines, etc.

Contour Plots

Contours  ▪  ContourStyle  ▪  ContourShading  ▪  ContourLabels  ▪  ...

Plotting Region »

PlotRange — range of values to include in the plot

RegionFunction — general function to define the plotting region

Function Discontinuities

Exclusions — how and where to check for discontinuities and excluded regions

ExclusionsStyle — how to render asymptotes, excluded regions, etc.

Sampling & Adaptivity

PlotPoints — number of initial sample points for each variable

MaxRecursion — maximum level of recursive subdivision

PerformanceGoal — whether to try to optimize for speed or for quality

Discrete Function Rendering

ExtentSize — how far and direction to extend from each plot point

ExtentMarkers — markers to use at extent boundaries

ExtentElementFunction — function to generate primitives for extents

Data Rendering

InterpolationOrder — how to join points in 2D and 3D (0 for steps, 1 for lines, etc.)

ScalingFunctions — how to scale individual coordinates

DataRange  ▪  MaxPlotPoints