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- From: carter@cemvax.cem.msu.edu (Tom Carter)
- Subject: Re: Stanford Graphics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.123113.14419@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- Organization: Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan
- References: <36662@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <1992Aug5.121430.2933@dgbt.doc.ca> <rhoward.713021222@matd> <36731@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 12:31:13 GMT
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- In article <36731@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> dirkct@pine.circa.ufl.edu (Dirk Terrell) writes:
- >In article <rhoward.713021222@matd>, rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes...
- >>ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <36662@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> fred@mole.cis.ufl.edu (Fred Buhl)
- writes:
- >>>>Anyone out there had personal experience with Stanford Graphics?
- >>>>
- >>>>The reviews I've read said it was pretty cool, but that it was buggy.
- >>
- >>>I'm interested in Stanford Graphics too and would like to know how it
- >>>compares to Sigma Plot. Can anyone help here?
- >>
- >>I don't know much about any bugs (I didn't use it long enough). I
- >>can't compare it to Sigma Plot (never used it). But I can say this:
- >>
- >>IT'S S L O W !
- >>
- >>It is practically unusable on my 386-33. And to make it worse,
- >>redraws are done so un-intelligently almost every action forces
- >>you to wait while everything is regenerated. I deleted it.
- >
- > I have to agree with the above. I am running SG on a 486/50 and
- >it is slow, especially during those damned redraws if you've got a
- >few thousand data points. I am also running SigmaPlot 5.0 and it is a
- >really good package in my opinion. I would recommend it highly for
- >scientific graphics. It is a DOS program, but that isn't such a
- >big deal for me since I'm running under OS/2. If you must have a
- >Windows program I guess SG is a reasonable choice, but I rarely
- >use it, mainly because it is slow. SG may evolve into a really good
- >package someday, but right now it shows its youth.
- >
- >*********************************************************************
- >Dirk Terrell :"The more a statement of fact conflicts with
- >Department of Astronomy: previous experience, the more complete must
- >University of Florida : must be the evidence which is to justify us
- > : in believing it." Thomas Huxley
- >*********************************************************************
-
- It seems I say this every month or so (and no - they're NOT paying me to say
- it), but the best scientific graphing program I've seen is Origin 2.0. I was
- just working on a graph with three data sets of over 11,000 data points
- each, and the screen redraws on my 486/33 took less than 1 sec. An older
- version is still (I think) available from the demo directory at
- ftp.cica.indiana.edu. I haven't tried SG, but from what I've read here on
- the net and in reviews in PC Mag an PC Week it's slow and buggy. Origin has
- a few bugs, but none of them are killers, just annoying. AND it's fast.
- Just MHO.
-
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