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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Looking for a graphics package...
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Date: 11 Sep 90 02:26:45 GMT
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I'm not that familiar with graphics packages (outside of X11 :-),
so I beseech you all for advice.

Several members of our faculty, longtime users of Unified Graphics
under VMS, have recently discovered that we were serious when we
promised to replace our 11/780 with a workstation cluster.  Now
they need something like UG for UN*X... 

What they "need", in the order that they told me..
-- low cost, preferably free. (I'll convince them to pay for something
   if it's a good product with support.)
-- one package, not a bunch of utilities from different places.
-- documentation other than the source code :-P
-- contour plotting (with color)
-- graph utilities, including:
   -- a "window" into a large chunk of data,
   -- labeling of graphs with titles and user-modifiable cooridinate
      marks
-- fortran compatible (they'll learn C if they have to, which I say
   they do :-).
-- plotting of 3D data (w/ hidden line removal, of course)
-- other neat features that you think mathematicians might like...

email, I'll summarize if there's interest.
thanks.
--
J. Eric Townsend -- University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120
Internet: jet@uh.edu
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