home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Asymptote is a Macintosh graph-processor designed to produce true
- publication-quality graphs for scientists and engineers.
-
- The design goal for Asymptote was to give scientists and
- engineers the tools they needed to produce sophisticated and highly
- customized graphs. With Asymptote, users can control the finest
- details of their graphs. Asymptote's programmable scripts make it
- easy to automate the graph-making process. Users can write scripts
- to run unattended in the background, or they can write interactive
- scripts that prompt them for input.
-
- Asymptote is a fully What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG)
- Macintosh application, so users can view their graphs on screen
- (through multiple levels of zoom) exactly as they appear when printed.
- Asymptote is System 7 savvy and supports Publish and Subscribe and
- QuickTime. With Publish and Subscribe, users can make changes to data
- in a Microsoft Excel worksheet while Asymptote automatically plots
- their new data in the background. Asymptote can also be controlled
- remotely by any Macintosh on a network. With QuickTime, Asymptote
- users can create a slide show presentation of their graphs or
- animate a sequence of graphs to make a movie.
-
- Asymptote has a powerful vector calculator that can calculate
- statistics and manipulate data before plotting. Users can fit polynomials,
- arbitrary functions, interpolate with a spline or smooth data with a fast
- Fourier transform. For the greatest number-crunching performance,
- Asymptote exploits the power of Macintosh computers with a math co-
- processor. Asymptote can plot any number of points, and its powerful
- text editors can open data files of any size (limited only by available
- memory). Asymptote's text editors also include sophisticated features
- such as GREP.
-
- Asymptote 1.1 for the Macintosh has the following features:
-
- * Create scientific and engineering graphs
- -- Log-log, log-linear, linear-log
- -- Multiple x or y axes
- -- Plot points, lines, arrows, polygons, histograms or labels
- -- Plot as many points as you have memory in your Macintosh
- -- Plot error bars or upper/lower limit arrows at each point
- -- Error bars or arrows can be different in all four directions
- -- Plot log errors on log-log graphs
- -- Plot as many graphs as you can fit on a page
- -- Stack graphs in columns, rows or panes
- -- Read point symbols from a file or calculate them
- -- Draw grid lines
- -- Shade under curves or histograms
- -- Draw axes ticks and tick labels inside or outside graph
- -- Use decimal, scientific, hours-min-sec, or deg-min-sec notation
- -- Specify number of significant digits to display
- * Control fine details of scientific and engineering graphs
- -- Sensible defaults with everything under your control
- -- Adjust the sizes of point symbols, labels, and tick marks
- -- Fill points with patterns
- -- Rotate points and labels through any angle
- -- Specify dash patterns (up to 6 on-off segments)
- -- Draw true dashed lines that follow a curve
- -- Use color anywhere on your graph
- -- Control the line thickness (hair-line and larger) anywhere
- -- Add labels anywhere; draw arrows from labels to points
- -- Set tick mark spacing and tick mark notation
- -- Draw axes with or without tick marks or tick labels
- * Read data from ordinary text files
- -- Read 1-D data directly from ASCII text files
- -- Skip any number of header or footer lines
- -- Read from rows or columns
- -- Read the errors, symbols and labels for each point
- -- Read data from a graph with the mouse
- * Edit data and scripts with advanced editors
- -- Fully featured text editors with undo
- -- File size limited only by memory
- -- Up to 32 files open at one time
- -- Configure font, font size and tab width
- -- Auto indent, auto scroll
- -- Fast Search and Replace in multiple files
- -- GREP for sophisticated Search and Replace
- * Manipulate data or calculate functions to plot
- -- Simultaneously operate on all the elements of 1-D arrays
- -- RPN (HP) style notation
- -- Highest possible precision (96 bits)
- -- Trigonometric functions: sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan
- -- Mathematical: y^x, 10^x, e^x, sqrt, log, ln, factorial
- -- Other : hms, frac, int, abs, rand and more
- -- Uses math co-processor (if your Macintosh has one)
- -- Specify stack depth, length of vectors and number of registers
- * Analyze data
- -- Select point symbols based on the results of a calculation
- -- Smooth with an FFT
- -- Interpolate with a spline
- -- Fit up to a 9th order polynomial with errors
- -- Fit any linear or non-linear function with up to 32 free parameters
- -- Specify different weights for each point when fitting
- -- Bin data to make histograms (frequency distributions)
- -- Sort data before plotting
- -- Calculate basic statistics (max, min, mean, std.dev., sum)
- -- Display statistics and fitting results on your graphs
- * Preview graphs on screen
- -- Graphs on screen look exactly as they do when printed
- -- Examine the finest details with multiple levels of zoom (x32)
- -- Full screen mode for presentations; set background color
- -- Read values from the graph with cross-hair cursor
- * Produce camera-ready hard copy
- -- True publication-quality graphs on high-resolution printers
- -- Save your graphs in high-resolution PICT files
- -- Create PostScript, and EPS files with LaserWriter 8 driver
- * Automate graph-making with scripts
- -- Perform repetitive plotting tasks automatically
- -- Scripts can run completely unattended in the background
- -- Create interactive scripts that prompt users for input
- -- Automatically search for files to open
- -- Control execution with for, while, if-then-else commands
- -- Pass arguments to scripts or macros
- * Share data automatically with other applications
- -- System 7 savvy, AppleEvent aware
- -- Subscribe to data published by other applications
- -- Graphs update automatically when you make changes
- -- Publish your graphs for use in other applications
- -- Control Asymptote from any Macintosh on your network
- -- Export data or the results of calculations to other applications
- * Create QuickTime movies
- -- Make a movie of a sequence of graphs or create a slide-show
- -- Control movie speed, image size and bit depth
- -- Color, gray scale or black & white
- -- Loop and play movies forwards and backwards
- * On-line, context-sensitive help system
- -- On-line help answers your questions quickly
- -- Lots of practical examples
- -- Personalize the on-line help with your own comments
- * Extensive User's Guide
- -- Tutorial, helpful hints and lots of examples
- -- Reference section and fully cross-referenced index
-
- +++ System Requirements +++
- Asymptote 1.1 requires a Macintosh running System 6 or later, with a
- minimum of 1 MB RAM and a hard disk. System 7, 4MB RAM, a math co-
- processor, QuickTime, LaserWriter driver version 8 or later and a color
- monitor are recommended.
-
- +++ Demonstration Version +++
- A demonstration version of Asymptote is available via anonymous ftp
- from ftp.std.com in the vendors/brains subdirectory or in the /sci
- directory of most INFOMAC sites.
-
- +++ Pricing and Availability +++
- Asymptote 1.1 for the Macintosh is being offered at $249.
- Educational Price: $199** Student Price: $129**
- -- Volume discounts and multi-user versions are available.
- -- 30 day money-back guarantee
- -- Unlimited e-mail, fax or phone support
- -- VISA and MasterCard accepted
- *Must be employed by a college or university
- **With valid student ID
-
- All prices listed are in U.S. dollars and subject to change.
- Purchase orders: Terms: net 30 days US only.
-
- Shipping & Handling
- Cont. US: $8 (Ground), $12 (2-Day), $21 (Overnight) -- via UPS
- HI & AK: $17 (2-Day) $27 (Overnight) -- via UPS
- Foreign: $33 except Canada: $12, Mexico: $10 -- via US Air Mail
-
- New Mexico residents:
- Please add 5.8125% tax
-
- -----------------------------
- BRAINS Software
- Internet: brains@world.std.com
- 9445 Bent Rd. NE
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- USA 87109
- Phone/Fax: (505) 828-9055
- -----------------------------
-
- Asymptote, graph-processor and the Brains logo are trademarks of
- Brains Software. All other trademarks are the property of their
- respective owners.
-