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- From: dlhanson@nap.amoco.com (David L. Hanson )
- Subject: 3D plotting / visualization
- Message-ID: <dlhanson.11.724358180@nap.amoco.com>
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- Organization: These opinions are mine!
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:36:20 GMT
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- I am about to tackle a data analysis/visualization project, and I'm looking
- for data plotting packages with the following characteristics (in approximate
- order of importance for my problem).
-
- o Runs on a PC under Microsoft Windows.
-
- o Must be capable of producing 3-D color-shaded surfaces and of rotating
- surfaces and coordinate axes to any selected angle/azimuth.
-
- o Invokable interactively and by some sort of "macro" execution (so I
- can save my analysis steps, and modify them).
-
- o Includes in its command set all the programming functionality to import
- data, build if/then/else, do/while, do/until, etc. constructs; has a
- full set of built-in math functions; has ability to fit/transform data
- to standard forms, etc. . . .
-
- o Has ability to open/close multiple windows and manage 3-D contents in
- each simultaneously, decipher mouse-button actions and graphical cursor
- coordinates originating from each.
-
- I'm aware of the plotting functionality in spreadsheets, such as Excel, and
- they're not a good fit. I've heard that a planned future release of Matlab
- (from The MathWorks), may meet many of these needs, but am looking for
- something NOW. There is also a product called PV-Wave (from Precision
- Visuals, Boulder CO) that would be excellent, but it only plots to VAX and
- Unix display devices, and this project is limited to PCs.
-
- If you are aware of anything that you think would fit the bill, please
- e-mail to me and/or post. (Please include a contact for the vendor or
- distributor if possible.)
-
- I'll post a summary if there is sufficient interest.
-
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