Beautiful graphs in papers

Hello,

Hope this question is not so silly.

As lots of scientific papers were written with TeX(LaTeX mostly), I
noticed that there're papers whoes graphs, both flow charts and data
plotings, were very beautiful and attractive. I would like to know what
tools do you use to draw or plot for your paper or your presentations.

As far as I know, many tools such as metapost, pstricks and gnuplot are
there for such jobs, but I suspect they are not so handy for easily
drawing and ploting, especially if the graph has a great many of
objects. Puting objects with coordinations explicitly with metapost and
pstricks seems a little bit of boring. Xfig produces high quality
vector graphs, but it is not so modern. For example, it's hard to use
shadow and gradient color in it. Gnuplot is widely used to plot, as it
is simple and clean, while in the meantime, it might be "too simple".

So again, I would like to know what tools or languages do you often use
to create graphs and plotings?

Best Regards

Andrew Xue

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