cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (04/14/88)
In article <2574@utastro.UUCP> (Ras Scot) writes: >Also, has anyone found some good scientific graphing programs? In article <8656@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> (Doug Merritt) replies: >No, although I've seen a number of mediocre ones. Have either of you looked at Doug's Math Aquarium? It has a really stupid name but is capable of graphing just about any function in 1 or 2 variables you can think of. With the new 1.3 printer drivers the plots look pretty decent as well. Now if I could convince them to plot to Fast memory for *really* high resolution stuff. As for data plotting with things like error bars and such have you checked out the Gnuplot stuff? It is around (probably in the source archives at uunet?) and seems to handle a lot of ones data plotting needs. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
doug@eris (Doug Merritt) (04/14/88)
In article <49387@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: >In article <2574@utastro.UUCP> (Ras Scot) writes: >>Also, has anyone found some good scientific graphing programs? > >In article <8656@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> (Doug Merritt) replies: >>No, although I've seen a number of mediocre ones. > >Have either of you looked at Doug's Math Aquarium? It has a really stupid >name but is capable of graphing just about any function in 1 or 2 variables I've got it, but maybe I haven't played with it enough...It didn't look as if it were capable of the generality that you're claiming. I'll have to fiddle with it some more, perhaps. However, I would expect a "good scientific graphing program" to allow me to work with complex valued functions, and this is not supported by D.M.A. Furthermore, due to the small number of limits on various aspects of doing user-defined functions, it's not generally possible to fake it, either. Also there should be a way to feed data points into it and have them plotted. D.M.A. simply is not designed to do this, nor a multitude of other things you'd want for *general* purposes. BTW I actually *like* Doug's Math Aquarium for the narrow purposes it's intended for...think of it as a programmable Mandelbrot program with a few extra features, and it does fine. >As for data plotting with things like error bars and such have you >checked out the Gnuplot stuff? It is around (probably in the source >archives at uunet?) and seems to handle a lot of ones data plotting needs. Has someone ported Gnuplot to the Amiga yet? I sort of assumed it was Sun oriented or something equally almost-but-not-quite-useful. Doug Merritt doug@mica.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!mica!doug) or ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug