venki@midway.ece.scarolina.edu (03/17/89)
Thanks to all who responded - CRC does work, and for those of you who are interested in trying out alternatives, Aritomo Shinozaki <ari@kolmogorov.physics.uiuc.edu> has an improved version of graph+(PD) built on top of Stanford's vplot. (Ari, my mail to you bounced - would it be possible to place the sutff in the Archives?) -venki <venki@midway.ece.scarolina.edu>
rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu (04/04/89)
Re. venki's remarks ca. plotting packages. You may also want to
investigate Nelson Beebe's <PLOT79> package from the University of Utah.
It presents certain tradeoffs: no hardware or PostScript fonts (Hershey
characters are handled as graphical objects), no fancy mouse-based
interface, BUT, it is portable (runs under virtually any serious OS),
comprehensive (includes all the requisite high-level numerical tools
required for good graphics, such as interpolation, coordinate conversion,
etc.), and includes high-level routines for simple 2- and 3-D plots,
contour maps, pie charts, histograms, maps, and simple molecular graphics.
An interpretive command language, slides, allows figures to be combined
and further manipulated by translation rotation, scaling, etc. (as in the
creation of an inset). It also comes with a library which supports the 40
or so most common output devices, including Tektronix terminal and
plotters, PostScript devices, HPGL, CalComp, and HI plotters, etc. We
have used it here for several years with great enthusiasm.
Contact: beebe@science.utah.edu
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