Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ub!ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu!v055l9y3 From: v055l9y3@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Stephen A Zelazny) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Scientific graphics packages? Message-ID: <44236@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 3 Nov 90 19:47:47 GMT References: Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Reply-To: v055l9y3@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu Followup-To: comp.graphics Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4.3 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. 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!> As far as macintosh graphing packages are concerned, the program DeltaGraph by Deltapoint, inc. seems to have the 3D plots which you say you miss as well as many other features which seemed to be lacking from Cricket Graph when I explored that package. To me, Deltagraph seems to be an infinitely better package. My computer of choice, however, is the IBM and for this machine I use a package called Tech-Graph-Pad which produces most of my graph needs (It does lack 3d plots however). Hope this helps somewhat. STeve Zelazny v055l9y3@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu