Searching for good vis. software
Martin Hofmann
martin at zoo.toronto.edu
Thu Apr 11 23:48:41 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr10.145812.1 at happy.colorado.edu> kmsahr at happy.colorado.edu writes:
> I'm new to the net so I'll bet this topic has been
>addressed before, but here goes... We just got an SGI
>4D/340VGX and we need a program for graphing and data
>visualization. Ideally, we'd like a program with these
>features:
>
> 1. Ability to do a wide variety of plots, from simple 2D
>histograms up to large 3D contour and surface plots.
>
> 2. Easy to use; our previous experience with plotting
>programs is on Macintoshes. Plotting programs there are very
>user-friendly but not very powerful...
>
> 3. Able to run from the console, X-terminals, and
>Tektronix terminals.
>
> 4. Able to create contour and surface plots from random
>data (i.e., data that doesn't lie on a regular X-Y grid).
>
> 5. Allows us to freely add labels, text, etc. to the
>finished plot using Mac-like drawing tools.
I would like something like this, and with one more feature:
6. Ability to produce high quality PostScript output of
the graphs.
Surely, there must something that does this out there in net-land.
Doesn't everbody need to produce graphs of various sorts?
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