Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Plotting pkg for suns Keywords: Software Message-ID: <8903171837.AA18142@clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu> Date: 4 Apr 89 08:45:01 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 27 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 10:37:01 PST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 223, message 3 of 15 Re. venki's remarks ca. plotting packages. You may also want to investigate Nelson Beebe's package from the University of Utah. It presents certain tradeoffs: no hardware or PostScript fonts (Hershey characters are handled as graphical objects), no fancy mouse-based interface, BUT, it is portable (runs under virtually any serious OS), comprehensive (includes all the requisite high-level numerical tools required for good graphics, such as interpolation, coordinate conversion, etc.), and includes high-level routines for simple 2- and 3-D plots, contour maps, pie charts, histograms, maps, and simple molecular graphics. An interpretive command language, slides, allows figures to be combined and further manipulated by translation rotation, scaling, etc. (as in the creation of an inset). It also comes with a library which supports the 40 or so most common output devices, including Tektronix terminal and plotters, PostScript devices, HPGL, CalComp, and HI plotters, etc. We have used it here for several years with great enthusiasm. Contact: beebe@science.utah.edu R. P. C. Rodgers, M.D. Telephone: Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecules (415)476-8910 (work) Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (415)664-0560 (home) University of California, Box 1204 E-mail: Laurel Heights Campus, Room 102 ARPA: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu 3333 California St. rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu San Francisco CA 94118 BITNET: rodgers@ucsfcca USA UUCP: ...ucbvax.berkeley.edu!cca.ucsf.edu!rodgers