salas@pprg.unm.edu (NN]) (01/06/90)
I am interested in what publication quality plotting packages are
being used out in the world, on what type of machines, and under what
operating systems. Here at UNM in the EECE department, we end up writ-
ing a new package or modifying an old one every few years because the
new computers do not have the same graphics support as their predecessors.
With all the new windowing systems based on X, there should be some com-
pany that has a nice package that runs on a lot of different machine
architectures. We have everything from Sun's to VAXen to HP's to RT's
here and need something that can run on all of them.
Is there any package out there that plots 2D and 3D data with a
"nice" interactive environment. It should also allow the user to save
the plotting environment for the next time they want to recreate the
plot. It such a pain to have to make the plot perfect for publication,
i.e. place labels, grids, etc., and not being able to save it for a
later date. You know, in case where the paper was accepted :^), but
they wanted a label changed :^(. We have a package that currently works
great on our Sun's under SunView using SunCore, but it is rapidly becom-
ing out of date and porting to X or XNeWs would take lots of time. We
do not have a lot of money to spend, but any information would greatly
be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
john
p.s. I would appreciate information on any graphics package, e.g. GKS,
CORE, PHIGS, ..., that can run under X on the different machine
types.
John Salas
Department of EECE
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
505-277-1082
NET-ADDRESS: salas@wayback.unm.edurivin@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Igor Rivin) (01/07/90)
I am rather prejudiced, but Mathematica from Wolfram Research (Champaign, IL, phone 217-398-0700) may be what you need. It runs under just about every windowing system out there (MacOS, X, NeWS, SunView/SunTools, 4Sight, UIS, etc), and does a lot more than plotting. -- Igor Rivin Wolfram Research, Inc. rivin@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU or rivin@wri.com