In two dimensions, PyGist supplies functions to plot curves, meshes (with various combinations of contours, filled mesh cells, and vector fields on the mesh, with color-filled contours in the future), sets of filled polygons, cell arrays, sets of disjoint lines, text strings, and a title. These are all provided by the Python module gist.py.
We will show a couple of simple examples below to give the reader a flavor of the interface.