Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!robobar!stl!servax0!alien From: alien@essex.ac.uk ("Adrian F Clark") Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Graphics Package Message-ID: Date: 23 Nov 90 16:43:41 GMT References: <599@chiton.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@servax0.essex.ac.uk Organization: University of Essex, UK Lines: 28 In-reply-to: martin@chiton.ucsd.edu's message of 19 Nov 90 21:33:26 GMT In article <599@chiton.ucsd.edu> martin@chiton.ucsd.edu (Martin Olivera) writes: > I'm looking for a good graphics package. It doesn't matter whether it's > public domain or commercial (although if I find one I like in one of > those ftp sites I don't mind). The graphics routines should be callable > from fortran and "c" programs. Anybody has any recommendations?. > > These graphics routines are to be used in a scientific envirnonment, > so emphasis is made in axes creation, log-log graphs, and all that. > Contouring and 3-d graphs are also wanted. The best one I've ever come across is DIMFILM, written by John Gilbert of the University of London Computer Centre, Guilford Street, London, UK. It was originally written for the CDC6600/7600, and subsequently ported to VMS (by me) and Unix (well, UNICOS) by John. Its output is definitely of publishable quality, and it is probably the most programmer-friendly graphics package I've ever seen. The main code is also totally portable, though the device-specific stuff obviously isn't. ULCC licence the software, but you shouldn't have to pay for it. I think the only reason it hasn't become more widely used is that John doesn't try to persuade people to use it. -- Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex INTERNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 206-872900 BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct) Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK.