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From: lamaster@pioneer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphics libraries that compete with DISSPLA
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Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 20:20:24 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 20:20:24 1987
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Keywords: DISSPLA, 2d and 3D graphics, portable graphics

In article <9533@duke.cs.duke.edu> hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside)
writes:

>Can anyone recommend alternatives to DISSPLA for general purpose 
>graphic packages? My own needs are the display of output from
>supercomputer simulations. Typically, I want to plot contour
>plots or 3D perspective plots of data with color and labels.
>DISSPLA will do the trick, but is extremely expensive to bring
>up on a mainframe. I will summarize to the net if others are
>interested. Thanks


DI3000 is also recommended but is also expensive like DISSPLA.  If you can't
afford a commercial graphics package, you might consider GKS.  There is a
partial implementation of GKS available in the public domain (possibly
available through DECUS or DEC's user software distribution catalog).  Both
PVI and ISSCO (now Computer Associates) have companion GKS implementations, so
you might even have a portable program.  Also, lots of sites use NCARLIB (from
the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colo.)

What mainframe are you running on?


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