RJones@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Bob Jones) (10/13/90)
I would be very grateful for any comments regarding scientific graphing packages. I am interested in interactive packages and FORTRAN/C libraries. At present we are mainly using UNIRAS graphics on a SUN workstation and Cricket Graph 1.2 on the Macintosh. Although the Mac interface makes Cricket Graph very easy to use it does not do everything that one would like. It does not allow 3D plots for example. On the other hand, although UNIRAS is a much more comprehensive package it is a pig to learn and clumsy to use. The UNIRAS interactives: Unigraph2000( for 2D/3D graph plotting ) and Uniedit2000( for drawing ) do not use a Mac like interface where one clicks on an object and in so doing pops up a relevant menu. Instead one has to traverse a multitude of menus before finally selecting which graphic object the menu option should be applied to -basically a very counter-intuitive exercise! There are also many elementary things that UNIRAS is unable to do. Error bars are not possible for example! Thanks in advance, Rob.