2fkics692bh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (03/28/90)
Does anyone know of a generic unix program that generates scientific plots? Just basic x,y and bar charts would be ok. It needs to output Postscript and input the data (x,y points) with some format information... I posted to this newsgroup because needs to work on a NeXT. Besides, you people seem to know quite a lot about unix. thanks
jasmerb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer) (03/29/90)
In article <22626.260fc124@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2fkics692bh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: > >Does anyone know of a generic unix program that generates scientific plots? >Just basic x,y and bar charts would be ok. It needs to output Postscript >and input the data (x,y points) with some format information... I have been using gnuplot 2.0 for a while now and am really enjoying it. It doesn't do bar charts as you usually see but it does "impulses" which are 1 pixel wide vertical bars. Gnuplot will do different line styles for different data sets (different dash patterns), and it also has different point styles. It will do your basic math stuff from sines and cosines to bessel functions. It is an interactive program and is totally text/command based but can generate postscript files to be viewed by "Preview". (Maybe someday I'll put a NeXT front end on it (no promises)). I'm not exactly sure where to get a copy of it, the ones on uunet and prep are the old version. Someone just told me that they saw it come across one of the comp.sources.? groups. Send me mail if you are interested and hopefully by then I will have found out where to get the latest version. Bryce Jasmer jasmerb@cs.orst.edu