larryt@AE.MSSTATE.EDU (Larry Thorne) (04/12/90)
We've just moved several of our people from Suns to Personal Iris machines (4D/25TGs) and they really miss the graphing/plotting package that they were using called grtool. This is about the handiest package to graph/plot 2D data that I've seen, and produces all sorts of output (Postscript, etc., etc.). Unfortunately, it only runs on Suns, but the author is planning to port it to X. In the meantime, does anyone know of software that runs on SGI machines that provides 2D graphing capabilities? I'm looking for something extremely versatile & easy to use that produces Postscript output, can be driven by parameter files, etc. PD preferred, but I'm willing to consider others. Thanks in advance! Larry Thorne larryt@ae.msstate.edu
bobg@rains.wpd.sgi.com (Bob Green) (04/13/90)
I don't know whether you would consider the combination of Documenter's WorkBench plus the Laser Printer Support option to be an answer to your 2D graphing problems but it works for me. I have several utilities which feed information into pic and grap which is then fed to the laser printer. It does take some time to get used to the primitive nature of these pure black and white programming tools. Bob Green Silicon Graphics, Inc.
vic@wookie.sgi.com (Victor Mitnick) (04/13/90)
There's IRISPLOT, which I believe is available free of charge from
math.arizona.edu (University of Arizona). I've never used it, but I
knows it's out there.
Here are some excerpts from the man page:
DESCRIPTION
IRISPLOT is a command and menu driven interactive plotting
program which generates high quality graphics on the IRIS-4D
series machine. It reads instructions from the standard in
and produces plots based on these instructions. Once a plot
is done, the plotted graphical objects can be manipulated by
mouse input.
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AUTHORS
The front end code is modified from gnuplot 1.1.5 by Thomas
Williams and Collin Kelley by Maorong Zou. The graphical
driver was written by Maorong Zou.
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(415)335-1372
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-- Lily Tomlinjmw@random.sgi.com (James M Winget) (04/13/90)
You might find that GNUPLOT provides the requested 2D plotting capabilites. It was recently posted to comp.sources.misc, heres part 0 of 13. I've been using (older versions) for several months. My typical exec version includes both the IRIS (shared GL) and Postscript (encapsulated) drivers. I preview the plot interactively, set the output to postscript, and "replot" to generate hardcopy. Works great! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article 590 of comp.sources.misc: Path: odin!shinobu!sgi!decwrl!uunet!allbery From: thaw@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU@pixar.UUCP (Tom Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc Subject: v11i065: Gnuplot 2.0 - 0 of 14 Message-ID: <82358@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 26 Mar 90 00:10:02 GMT Sender: allbery@uunet.UU.NET Organization: Pixar -- Marin County, California Lines: 38 Approved: allbery@uunet.UU.NET (Brandon S. Allbery - comp.sources.misc) Posting-number: Volume 11, Issue 65 Submitted-by: thaw@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU@pixar.UUCP (Tom Williams) Archive-name: gnuplot2/part00 --- CUT HERE --- #!/bin/sh # This is a shell file to make directories mkdir term demo bugtest docs docs/latextut translate exit --- CUT HERE --- Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for UNIX, MSDOS, and VMS platforms. The software is free. It was originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data. Additions to this version of the software allow production of publication quality plots and data graphs. Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers and is easily extensible to include new devices. [ The "GNU" in Gnuplot has nothing to do with the Free Software Foundation, the naming is just a coincidence (and a long story). ] Gnuplot Features: Cartesian and Polar plots. Logscale graphs. Intelligent Tic spacing. Optional Autoscaling. Support for complex numbers. VMS-like online help. User-definable functions and variables. All the builtin functions C, FORTRAN, and BASIC provide. All the unary and binary operators supported by C, and more. MANY formatting features, such as labels, grids, and arrows. Support for Saving and Loading work in progress. Command line substitution. And lots more.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are my diffs for the Makefile (the only changes I had to make): 22c22 < CFLAGS = -DGAMMA -O --- > CFLAGS = -DVFORK -DBCOPY -DBZERO -DGAMMA #-gx #-O 52,55c52,55 < #TERMFLAGS = -Iterm -DAED -DBITGRAPH -DDXY800A -DEPSON -DHP2648 \ < # -DHP26 -DHP75 -DHPGL -DHPLJET -DIMAGEN -DKERMIT -DLATEX -DEEPIC \ < # -DPOSTSCRIPT -DPROPRINTER -DQMS -DREGIS -DSELANAR -DTEK \ < # -DUNIXPLOT -DV384 --- > TERMFLAGS = -Iterm -DAED -DBITGRAPH -DDXY800A -DEPSON -DHP2648 \ > -DHP26 -DHP75 -DHPGL -DHPLJET -DIMAGEN -DKERMIT -DLATEX -DEEPIC \ > -DPOSTSCRIPT -DPROPRINTER -DQMS -DREGIS -DSELANAR -DTEK \ > -DUNIXPLOT -DV384 57,58d56 < TERMFLAGS = -Iterm -DIRIS4D -DPOSTSCRIPT < 106c104 < LIBS = -lm -lgl_s --- > LIBS = -lm -lplot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hope that helps, Jim --- James M. Winget Silicon Graphics (415) 962-3654 2011 Stierlin Road jmw@sgi.com Mountain View, CA 94043-7311 or possibly: ames!sgi!jmw