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From: jmb@patton.SGI.COM (Jim Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Iris plotting packages.
Summary: A little bit of help ...
Keywords: Iris, plotting, 3-D, 4-D
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Date: 30 Oct 88 22:45:28 GMT
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In article <717@mv06.ecf.toronto.edu>, soosaar@ecf.toronto.edu (Robert Soosaar) writes:
> We are currently looking for a 2-D/3-D plotting package for
> our Silicon Graphics Iris 3130 and Personal Iris workstations.
> 
> Freeware ( or Cheapware) would be nice, however, any software or
> information about sources would be appreciated.
> 
> Also, the ability to drive Postscript would be handy.
> 
> Thanks...		Rob Soosaar
> 			University of Toronto
> 			Aerospace
> 			soosaar@ecf.toronto.edu

Two packages available from SGI take you at least part of the way.  We supply,
as LaserWriter support, the Adobe Transcript package, which will allow you
to push PostScript out to a laserwriter or elsewhere.  (This package is
available on both 4D and 3000 series machines).

In addition, we also supply Documentor's Workbench 2.0 from AT&T, which
includes facilities for 2D graphing and pictures, which can then be
converted to PostScript via the Transcript package.  (I believe this is
available on both 4D and 3000 series machines).

Note also that 4Sight is NeWS based, and thus handles PostScript directly
in a window.  The 'psview' facility, as of release 3.1, can show you what
LaserWriter documents will look like directly in a window.  (Not available
on the 3000 series ... yet).

There has been some publicly available software posted to comp.sources
for converting to/from PostScript and troff, which may help as well.

As to 3D plotting, it seems like it should be easy, but I've never
seen any software to do it.

-- Jim Barton
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