soosaar@ecf.toronto.edu (Robert Soosaar) (10/20/88)
We are currently looking for a 2-D/3-D plotting package for our Silicon Graphics Iris 3130 and Personal Iris workstations. Freeware ( or Cheapware) would be nice, however, any software or information about sources would be appreciated. Also, the ability to drive Postscript would be handy. Thanks... Rob Soosaar University of Toronto Aerospace soosaar@ecf.toronto.edu
jmb@patton.SGI.COM (Jim Barton) (10/31/88)
In article <717@mv06.ecf.toronto.edu>, soosaar@ecf.toronto.edu (Robert Soosaar) writes: > We are currently looking for a 2-D/3-D plotting package for > our Silicon Graphics Iris 3130 and Personal Iris workstations. > > Freeware ( or Cheapware) would be nice, however, any software or > information about sources would be appreciated. > > Also, the ability to drive Postscript would be handy. > > Thanks... Rob Soosaar > University of Toronto > Aerospace > soosaar@ecf.toronto.edu Two packages available from SGI take you at least part of the way. We supply, as LaserWriter support, the Adobe Transcript package, which will allow you to push PostScript out to a laserwriter or elsewhere. (This package is available on both 4D and 3000 series machines). In addition, we also supply Documentor's Workbench 2.0 from AT&T, which includes facilities for 2D graphing and pictures, which can then be converted to PostScript via the Transcript package. (I believe this is available on both 4D and 3000 series machines). Note also that 4Sight is NeWS based, and thus handles PostScript directly in a window. The 'psview' facility, as of release 3.1, can show you what LaserWriter documents will look like directly in a window. (Not available on the 3000 series ... yet). There has been some publicly available software posted to comp.sources for converting to/from PostScript and troff, which may help as well. As to 3D plotting, it seems like it should be easy, but I've never seen any software to do it. -- Jim Barton Silicon Graphics Computing Systems "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!" jmb@sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb@decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb "I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused." - Elvis Costello, 'Red Shoes' --
ciemo@bananapc.SGI.COM (Dave Ciemiewicz) (11/01/88)
In article <717@mv06.ecf.toronto.edu>, soosaar@ecf.toronto.edu (Robert Soosaar) writes: > We are currently looking for a 2-D/3-D plotting package for > our Silicon Graphics Iris 3130 and Personal Iris workstations. > > Freeware ( or Cheapware) would be nice, however, any software or > information about sources would be appreciated. > > Also, the ability to drive Postscript would be handy. > > Thanks... Rob Soosaar > University of Toronto > Aerospace > soosaar@ecf.toronto.edu Well, it isn't free or cheap (relatively speaking) but you can use Mathematica for 2D and 3D plotting of formulas and empirical data. Mathematica also supports PostScript display of plots for printing. In fact, this is the way static plots are displayed under 4Sight, Silicon Graphics window system based on NeWS. The PostScript display of plots is NOT a requirement of working under 4Sight. I believe the PostScript imaging of plots was just the quickest and easiest way for Wolfram Research, Inc. (WRI), the developers of Mathematica, to bring up Mathematica on the IRIS since they had already developed a PostScript interface for use on other systems. WRI also provides a "live" viewer with Mathematica for dynamically displaying and manipulating 3D plots on the IRIS 4D series of computers from Silicon Graphics which includes the Personal Iris. This is a feature which I don't believe WRI provides for any platform other than the IRIS 4D. Another thing about using Mathematica is that you may be able to do some or all of your analysis of your data in Mathematica. One package for most of your work instead of a bunch of packages. I am sorry to say though that Mathematica is not available for the IRIS 3000 series. Mathematica is one of those programs I wish was available to me when I was in college. Dave Ciemiewicz (ciemo) Copyleft (l)* Silicon Graphics, Inc. * Three copylefts make a copyright don't they? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wanted to say something witty and clever here but I forgot what it was. --- Dave Ciemiewicz aka Ciemo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mike@BRL.MIL (Mike Muuss) (12/02/88)
The BRL-CAD Package has a variety of software for generating 3-D plot files (where the plot itself is 3-D, not (only) the data). -Mike