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From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Drawing, plotting, ...?
Message-ID: <1991May6.122808.3748@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 17:00:32 GMT
References: <1991May6.121144.4862@uni-paderborn.de>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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In article <1991May6.121144.4862@uni-paderborn.de>, marc@uni-paderborn.de (Marc Gumbold) writes:
>As I decided to give my poor old ST yet another chance to be 
>treated as a real, usable, reasonable, adult computer, I'm looking for 
>(possibly from the PD realm...):
>
>	(b) some plot program that could plot x-y (or better
>	x-y1-y2-...-yn) style data files and, if possible,
>	function graphs. Or, put it this way, is there a 
>	decent port of Gnuplot running on a 1 MB monochrome
>	ST available? (Think I read something like that somewhere...)

I have several great programs for this.  First of all, you can try SubCal 1.14
on atari.archive.umich.edu.  It is primarily a calculation tool, but does 
support graphing.  Now, here is my problem.  I have two tools from magazines.
They are Sci-Plot and Ultra-Graph.  Either one would be ideal for what you 
want (Sci-Plot is probably better, as it is more printout oriented).  However,
I am unsure if I can put them on atari.archive.  Does anyone know?  One of the 
magazines is dead (STlog), so would that one be ok?  Is STart dead yet?  Here 
are the issues:

     STart November 1988 - Sci Plot
     STlog November 1988 - Ultra-Graph (geez, that's weird!!  I never noticed 
                                          the identical dates before?!?)

Anyway, if you can find the back issues with disk, you have got it made.  
Otherwise, if someone can figure out a way that I can legally put them 
somewhere, let me know.  

Sci Plot is geared toward making professional graph printouts.  They 
come out looking great, and it is very flexible in terms of data input, 
graph type, error bars, placement, text on the graph, etc.  

Ultra-Graph is more of a screen oriented function plotter.  It is absolutely 
stunning on a color monitor (I remember many days of dinking with this 
one when I got it).  Also looks nice in high res.  It can do 2D stuff, but
it was really designed to show 3D plots.  You can move your point of          
perspective, enter your own functions, change colors, etc.   

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