Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utah.edu!thomson From: thomson@cs.utah.edu (Rich Thomson) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Scientific graphics packages? Message-ID: <1990Oct15.105526.25919@hellgate.utah.edu> Date: 15 Oct 90 16:55:26 GMT References: Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Utah, SLC, UT Lines: 21 In article RJones@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Bob Jones) writes: >I would be very grateful for any comments regarding scientific >graphing packages. I am interested in interactive packages and >FORTRAN/C libraries. I have been playing alot with AVS lately (Stardent's Application Visualization System) and it is pretty comprehensive in letting you manipulate things. It is mostly geared towards 3D rendering, but I have heard that there is a group of 3D modules available for AVS. AVS lets you customize things by writing your own modules (implemented as a UN*X process), which can be either in C or FORTRAN. I've played around with writing my own modules and it's pretty easy to integrate into AVS. It's not written specifically for graphing, but it could handle that as a subset. I haven't seen the "graphing" modules that are supposedly produced commercially. -- Rich Rich Thomson thomson@cs.utah.edu {bellcore,hplabs,uunet}!utah-cs!thomson ``If everybody is thinking the same thing, is anybody thinking?'' --Bob Johnson