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From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why no plotting packages?
Keywords: plot, computation, Paintjet
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Date: 26 Oct 89 15:29:19 GMT
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  Interesting timing. Yesterday my boss introduced me to Cricket Graph
on the Mac. Now that is one really neat program. Why isn't there something
like it for the Amiga? (Is there something like this for the Sun?)
I'd certainly buy something like this if the interactive stuff worked
as nicely as Cricket Graph does, and if it made nice looking plots.

  There is of course the plplot library, which is pretty impressive.
So you can always write a little C program to plot your data (or REXX
with the newest version...could even write an editor macro to let you
edit the datafile and send it to plplot from the editor, allowing you
to do some semi-interactive stuff). But this lacks the nice
interactivity of Cricket Graph.

  Do any of the Amiga Spreadsheets have the ability to make good scientific
graphs? They'd need to be able to do scatter and line plots, and to do
log scale axes.