ecottle@falcon.afit.af.mil (Eugene T. Cottle) (07/21/90)
Does anyone know where I might find a good 3-D data plotter for the Amiga? I have a function plotter (specify a function), but I need a plotter which will read x, y, and z data points and plot them. PD would be great, but if I can't find a PD plotter, I would be willing to buy a commercial one. E Cottle (513)254-7760 5154 Cobb Drive Dayton OH 45431 ecottle@falcon.afit.af.mil
MILES@cc.usu.edu (Miles Johnson) (08/01/90)
Eugene, Tried EMAIL but couldn't get to the .mil domain. Hope this summary of PD 3d data plotting programs is of general interest... Could that really be you? Maybe it is just some other Eugene T. Cottle that moved to Dayton. Well, assuming it is you, Jensine send her regards. You asked: >Does anyone know where I might find 3-D data plotting software for >the Amiga? I have software which will plot a function, but I >need to be able to specify x, y, and z data points and plot them. I am not familiar with anything that will do this. I searched my list of Fish disks and came up with these possiblities: ****************************** Fish Disk 340: -------------------- Plplot A library of C functions useful for scientific plotting on the Amiga. The library is Lattice C compatible. Contour plotting, three dimensional plotting, axis redefinition, log-log plotting and multiple subpages are a few of Plplot's features. The plots can be displayed on a monitor or sent to a graphics file for subsequent printing. This is version 2.6, and update to version 1.00 on disk 222. This version includes a greatly improved intuition interface, preferences support for hardcopy, several new device drivers, and the capability of adding additional device drivers easily. Includes source. Author: Tony Richardson CONTENTS OF DISK 333 -------------------- MultiPlot A package for making 2D plots conveniently. Tim Mooney wrote the original program, which was then enhanced by Alan Baxter with a nicer user interface, support for the PLT: device, and support for file conversions. Rich Champeaux and Jim Miller wrote the PLT: handler which emulates a plotter by accepting HP-GL commands, creating a raster image, then dumping it to any preferences supported graphics printer. This is version XLNb, an update to version XLN on disk 292, and includes many bug fixes, style changes, and enhancements. Includes source. Author: Alan Baxter, Tim Mooney, Rich Campeaux, Jim Miller {This is the only one I have seen. Creates great paper output with the PLT: device. BUT, only 2D. -Miles} CONTENTS OF DISK 324 -------------------- DPFFT An enhanced version of DPlot from disk 290. DPlot is a simple display program for experimental data, with the goals of supporting paging through lots of data and providing comfortable scaling and presentation. The enhancements for DPFFT include addition of a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), display of a customized amplitude and phase spectrum, a prewhitening capability, and a Welch window for spectral smoothing. This is version 2.1, binary only. Author: A. A. Walma CONTENTS OF DISK 306 -------------------- RexxPlPlot A library of C functions useful for scientific plotting on the Amiga. The library is Lattice C compatible. Contour plotting, three dimensional plotting, axis redefinition, log-log plotting and multiple subpages are a few of Plplot's features. The plots can be displayed on a monitor or sent to a graphics file for subsequent printing. This is RexxPlPlot version 0.3, an update to Plplot version 1.00 on disk 222. New features include an ARexx interface, support for IFF output, support for PostScript output, support for Preferences, some new functions, bug fixes, and more. Includes source. Author: Tony Richardson, Samuel Paolucci, Glenn Lewis and Tomas Rokicki CONTENTS OF DISK 288 -------------------- PlotData2D Plots data onto a custom user defined screen and window, reading the plot and screen/window definitions, along with the X and Y data pairs, from a disk file. Supports linear, log-log, and semi-log axis plots. The data can be plotted with lines, symbols, or both. Includes numerous example plots. Version 1.0, includes source in Fortran. Author: Robert C. Singleterry Jr. CONTENTS OF DISK 267 -------------------- Matlab A FORTRAN package (MATrix LABoratory) developed by Argonne National Laboratories for in house use. It provides comprehensive vector and tensor operations in a package which may be programmed either through a macro language or through execution of script files. Supported functions include sin, cos, tan, arcfunctions, upper triangular, lower triangular, determinants, matrix multiplication, identity, hilbert matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, matrix roots, matrix products, inversion, and more. Amiga specific features include workbench startup, polar plots, contour plots, enhanced plot buffer control, and algorithmic plot display generation. Includes source in FORTRAN. Author: Cleve Moler, Jim Locker CONTENTS OF DISK 231 -------------------- Plot A package for making 2D and 3D plots conveniently. AG Baxter wrote the intuition interface program (Plot) and Tim Mooney wrote the MultiPlot and ThreeDPlot programs, which are called from Plot. This is version 1.2 and includes source to Plot. Author: AG Baxter, Tim Mooney CONTENTS OF DISK 165 -------------------- PlotView A couple of programs, Plotview and Plot2Am, for viewing UNIX plot files. Also included are two sub-directories: Plot -- a device independent plotting package for the Amiga, compatible with the UNIX plot subroutine package and Plot2Tek -- converts UNIX plot format files to Tektronix 410x terminal graphic commands. Source included. Author: Joel Swank CONTENTS OF DISK 121 -------------------- Plot A shareware 3-D graphing program written in AmigaBASIC, with some sample output plots. Source available from author. Author: George Trepal ************************* In addition to these PD offerings. One of the guys in the user group mentioned that you might be able to use 'Dougs Math Aquarium'. He hadn't used it, just read glowing reviews. Dougs Math Aquarium is published by: Seven Seas Software, 35 Cape George Wye, Port Townsend, WA 98368 It cost about $45 last time I checked. Hope one of these works for you. -- Internet: MILES@CC.USU.EDU "Filter first for substance. Filter Bitnet: MILES@USU second for significance. These filters Turtle Mail: Miles Johnson protect against advertising." Utah State Univ. UMC 3700 -Zetetic Commentaries Logan, UTAH 84322 (From David's Sling by Marc Stiegler)