SONDVONS@HASARA11.BITNET (Peter Vons) (05/07/91)
Can anybody send me some information about the graphics package from NCAR? What functionality does it include? Where can I get it? Can it be used as a replacement for DISSPLA on which development seems to have been stopped since a couple of years Please e-mail: Peter Vons. SARA Academic Computing Centre Amsterdam, Netherlands. e-mail: petervm@sara.nl
yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel) (05/08/91)
NCAR software is available from: NCAR Software Distribution Scientific Computing Division National Center For Atmospheric Research P. O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 Phone 303/497-1201
hart@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Bill Hart) (05/08/91)
Oh dear, Ncar hasen`t really come that far either. It's good points are that it now supports X and colour quite well and is reasonably device independent, it also has some good utilities for mapping plots onto different coordinate systems, and it's cheap. The bad news is it's inefficient, has some horrible pre 70's fortran code, no decent font support and is a bugger to program with. If youv'e got some money have a look at PV-WAVE, or if you want to do scientific visualization stuff apE2.1, or Khoros (new version should be out by now). Hope this helps Bill Hart CSIRO Division of Oceanography hart@ocean.ml.csiro.au
dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Dwight D. Moore) (05/08/91)
Yet another option is:
GRAFkit from Centera Technologies, Inc.
This package is almost identical to NCARgraphics except that it is produced
by
a commercial company and therefore motivated to keep its software upto
date
and evolving. This comes with a GKS package and a CGM translater as well
as
support for a lot of devices, including X/DECwindows.
Centera Technologies, Inc
740C South Pierce, Ave
Louisville, CO 80027-9989
Phone: 1-800-222-4239
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Geosciences Computing Network
University of Oklahoma
dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (129.15.40.10)
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