mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell) (08/29/85)
Have to give a plug for two BEAUTIFUL programs - this inspired by the request for graphing programs. Both programs were written by an acquaintance, but I have seen them and they are REAL knockouts! (1) STATWORKS - If you hack data analysis, this one is for you. All kinds of statistical computations, both mundane and esoteric. FANTASTIC 3-d graphics. Wonderful interface, etc. (2) Cricket Graph Designed to read STATWORKS files, but you can get data in via other routes too. Sort of MS-Chart for Scientific/Technical graphics. It will do bar and pie charts (in perspective!!!!!!), but its forte is the kind of stuff Calcomps and PLOT-10 software spend their lives doing. You can lay multiple plots on a single set of axes, scale, log, reorient, annotate, and arrange multiple plots on a page. Of course it works with Laserwrites as well as Imagewriters. This program is a masterpiece implementation of the Interface Guidelines, plus an incredible attention to detail and what I call "user wonderfulness". If you think I like these two programs, you are dead right. With a megaMac, I suspect the poor BMD-P users of the world could forget their keypunching skills with STATWORKS; Cricket Graph may genuinely endanger the employment of many slower Calcomp plotters, not to mention many Fortran plotting libraries. -Mike O'Dell