clark@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Clark Liu) (11/29/90)
If anybody knows any package on the mac capable of drawing contour lines please email me its name. Thanks very much! .
johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (11/29/90)
In article <10435@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, clark@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Clark Liu) writes... >If anybody knows any package on the mac capable of drawing contour >lines please email me its name. I did e-mail this, but others may be interested ... Contour 81 is a shareware contour plotting application for the Mac. A practical application example: this type of program is used to plot isotherms, equipotential lines, and the like from three column data files or numerical results. This is something the Cricket Graphs of the world don't handle. I don't know enough about contour plotting to post a critical evaluation. I do know that good packages are rare enough that the engineers in our organization use a home-brewed graphics package for this sort of output. It would be interesting for someone who has used this application to post a review; while there are excellent contour plotting packages on mainframes, many engineers would love to tap the convenience of the laserwriter for this application. Bill Johnston; 38 Chambers St.; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949 johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu
mt0lamg@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (xuefeng li) (11/29/90)
>post a review; while there are excellent contour plotting packages on >mainframes, many engineers would love to tap the convenience of the I use contour plotting software from mainframe, and capture the picture onto my own disk. One software that can possibly be used is 3-D Graph. Contour plotting can be carried out by choosing the top-view option. But the result is not really a CONTOUR plot. Another disadvantage of such softwares is that they run into trouble (or become extremely slow) when one tries to plot a huge data file. That is the reason I prefer using things in mainframe. Advantage of 3-D Graph is that it plots everything. There is also a program called ContourPlot that can be FTPed from somewhere, but I don't remember where it is now because I don't use it.
simon@cs.ualberta.ca (Simon Tortike) (11/29/90)
johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes: >In article <10435@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, clark@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Clark Liu) writes... >>If anybody knows any package on the mac capable of drawing contour >>lines please email me its name. >Contour 81 is a shareware contour plotting application for the Mac. >A practical application example: this type of program is used to >plot isotherms, equipotential lines, and the like from three column >data files or numerical results. This is something the Cricket Graphs >of the world don't handle. A very versatile contouring program for the Mac is ContourPlot from Australia. A demo version is available in the sumex archives. Its particular strength is the ability to superimpose a new grid on the data and then offer varous interpolation schemes (nothing else I have seen on the mac does this). It provides publication quality contour output, with _very_ slick curves, point and click changes to almost anything you can imagine. It also supports shaded countour maps (colour and greys), but I have not spent much time on that. Its usability is much the same as SurfaceII (I'm sure that is the name) available on some mainframes, with a much better interface. It also provides batch processing capability, which many people will appreciate. The latest version I have seen is 1.2.1. Regards, -- W. Simon Tortike, | tel : 403/492-3338 Dept of Mining, Metallurgical | fax : 403/492-7219 and Petroleum Engineering, | CA*net : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA University of Alberta, | uucp : simon@alberta.uucp Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2G6. | CA*net : simon@mmpe.mineral.UAlberta.CA
simon@cs.ualberta.ca (Simon Tortike) (11/29/90)
I forgot to add that one needs a 680x0 (x>0) machine to run ContourPlot,
so a Mac Plus or SE is not enough.
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W. Simon Tortike, | tel : 403/492-3338
Dept of Mining, Metallurgical | fax : 403/492-7219
and Petroleum Engineering, | CA*net : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA
University of Alberta, | uucp : simon@alberta.uucp
Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2G6. | CA*net : simon@mmpe.mineral.UAlberta.CAsiegman@sierra.STANFORD.EDU (siegman) (11/30/90)
Mathematica does contour plotting.
Mac.Nut@f75.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mac Nut) (12/10/90)
I need to know if there is any program for the Mac that can transfer files automaticly from one partion or vloume to another which can be configured to recognize a certain file name or folder. Thanks, Ed -- Mac Nut via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!343!75!Mac.Nut INET: Mac.Nut@f75.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG
kxl4@po.CWRU.Edu (Kuochun Lee) (05/18/91)
1 Hi! I would like to know is there anyone who knows how to transfer PostScript to MacPaint file. Is there any software available? Thank you for your help. K. C.