Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Path: utzoo!martin
From: martin@zoo.toronto.edu (Martin Hofmann)
Subject: Re: Searching for good vis. software
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.134841.23776@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 13:48:41 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.145812.1@happy.colorado.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr10.145812.1@happy.colorado.edu> kmsahr@happy.colorado.edu writes:
>     I'm new to the net so I'll bet this topic has been 
>addressed before, but here goes... We just got an SGI 
>4D/340VGX and we need a program for graphing and data 
>visualization. Ideally, we'd like a program with these 
>features:
>
>     1. Ability to do a wide variety of plots, from simple 2D 
>histograms up to large 3D contour and surface plots.
>
>     2. Easy to use; our previous experience with plotting 
>programs is on Macintoshes. Plotting programs there are very 
>user-friendly but not very powerful...
>
>     3. Able to run from the console, X-terminals, and 
>Tektronix terminals.
>
>     4. Able to create contour and surface plots from random 
>data (i.e., data that doesn't lie on a regular X-Y grid).
>
>     5. Allows us to freely add labels, text, etc. to the 
>finished plot using Mac-like drawing tools.

I would like something like this, and with one more feature:
	6. Ability to produce high quality PostScript output of
the graphs.

Surely, there must something that does this out there in net-land.
Doesn't everbody need to produce graphs of various sorts?

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