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From: cd5340@mars.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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Subject: Re: Scientific Plotting Package under MSDOS?
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Date: 27 Mar 91 01:06:12 GMT
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In article <91085.095650J0S@psuvm.psu.edu> J0S@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>I recently observed (and was very impressed by) the 3-D graphical
>output from a Mac. scientific spreadsheet program called, I believe,
>WINGS.  The display was a 3-D surface hanging above a contour
>projection of the same data.  Rather than using meshes and contour
>lines, they used color encoding at the pixel level to encode data
>values.  Hidden portions of the surface were also hidden on the 3-D
>display.
>
>Are you aware of any programs like this running under MSDOS?
>
The spreadsheet program "Wingz" by Informix has been released for
Microsoft Windows.  I don't recall it being a scientific plotting 
package, though.  I have seen "Mathematica" for the Mac, and it is
quite impressive (it's what the ads in our college newspaper have
shown recently).  Unfortunately, the IBM version requires a 386, a
math chip, and still won't plot to the screen.  Only the Mac and
Sun versions will do that.
--
David Charlap                   "Invention is the mother of necessity"
cd5340@mars.njit.edu            "Necessity is a mother"
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