Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!chepil!wagner From: wagner@chepil.weru.ksu.edu (Larry Wagner) Subject: Re: Scientific Plotting Package under MSDOS? Message-ID: <1991Mar27.174444.2945@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Organization: Kansas State University References: <91085.095650J0S@psuvm.psu.edu> <21458@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1991Mar26.190409.27379@ariel.unm.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 17:44:44 GMT Lines: 56 cn9gr8ad@hydra.unm.edu writes: >In article <21458@shlump.nac.dec.com> gettys@yacht.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys) writes: >> >> Wingz is also available on the PC to run under MS-Windows V3. I don't >>know if it has all the capability of its MAC counterpart, though. >> >> /s/ Bob Gettys > A program called AXUM is also available that has some nice features > for 2-D, 3-D, and projection graphs. One of the major > drawbacks of most plotting packages that i have looked at > for the PC is the fact that they are written mainly for > " business " applications ( i.e. pie charts, bar graphs ), > and dont usually offer many " scientific " options > ( i.e. 3-D log,log,log ). If anyone out there has a > favorite, fire a line to me.. Im still in the pursuit of > the ultimate PC based 3-D plotter for " scientific data ". You may want to try SigmaPlot 4.0 by Jandel Scientific. It is definitely a scientific graphing package as opposed to all the "business" graphics packages like Harvard Graphics. It will handle many types of plots like log-log, log-normal, log-probability (only one I know that can do this one - which I needed) , etc. It has very good capabilities to deal with data transformation (I was able to construct the complimentary error function (erfx) filter with it's macro capabilities. It is menu driven (a little bit mazy but once you have created your template, plotting different sets of data is pretty straight-forward). It only handles 2D plots. We run it on a 20MHz 386 machine with a coprocessor. I suspect it would be a little slow on 8088 machines. It will use 800x600 extended VGA screen modes which is very nice for viewing the plot(s) on the screen. Data is displayed and manipulated in a spreadsheet-like manner. These are some of the things I can think of off the top of my head that I have liked about the program and my personal impressions. It has fulfilled our current plotting needs under DOS. Their may be other packages that can do the things SigmaPlot can do that I don't know about. I do seem to remember reading a review about scientific graphing packages recently in PC Magazine (I think it was this magazine). It rated another package tops that I know nothing about. They hit SigmaPlot for not having 3D capabilities, but I don't need that right now. Here is their address: Jandel Scientific 65 Koch Road Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415)924-8640 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Larry E. Wagner | wagner@chepil.weru.ksu.edu USDA-ARS Wind Erosion Research Unit | wagner@matt.ksu.ksu.edu 105B East Waters Hall, KSU | ...!{rutgers,texbell}!ksuvax1!weru!wagner Manhattan, KS 66506 |phone (913)532-6807 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------