A 3D multi-bar chart with a gradient background color and soft lighting effects.

A multi-bar chart with a gradient background color and glass shading effects.

ChartDirector supports bars of cylindrical and arbitrary polygonal shapes on the same chart. This chart demonstrates bars with various polygon shapes.

A multi-color horizontal bar chart, using gradient colors for the bars as well as the background.

ChartDirector allows the four corners of the chart to be independently rounded with different radii. In this chart, two of the corners are rounded for decoration purpose.

A multi-stacked bar chart, which contains stacked bars clustered together.

Note the axis labels. They are with icons! These are created using ChartDirector Mark Up Language (CDML).

This is actually two bar charts, combined with the ChartDirector Multi-Chart object. ChartDirector allows arbitrary charts to be combined together.

Note the x-axis directions of the two charts are opposite to each others. In ChartDirector, axis direction is configurable.