davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") (11/14/90)
Hi, I am writing a public domain data plotting package. I now want to add the ability to plot 3-d data sets and to do this from scratch will take too much time and effort. I would appreciate it if some kind soul were to send me some source code for a 3-d routine. C is preferred but pascal is acceptable. Of course the code will be distributed with the finished program and any help will be gratefully acknowledged. While I am at it, a few weeks ago I posted a request for a good public domain plotting package. I received numerous suggestions. Briefly, the suggestions mostly pertained to packages that require some sort of windowing system and others to GNUPLOT. However, I checked these out and immediately rejected the window applications because the average physicist sits in front of a vtxxx and works with either regis or tektronix graphics. Gnuplot was rejected because of its inability to plot complex data files; so one has to edit the data files to produce a form suitable for GNUPLOT. However, this time could be spent editing the file to a form suitable for TOPDRAWER which in my opinion produces higher quality graphs. However, GNUPLOT is excused since as I was told by one of the authors, it was originally designed to plot functions and only the ability to plot data was added later. As a result I am writing my own package. Thank you, -- John bitnet: davis@ohstpy internet: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu