From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Mar 12 04:26:59 1999
Subject: Re: Summary
From: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at icp dot inpg dot fr>
To: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: 12 Mar 1999 11:26:53 +0100

>>>>> "MV" == Matthew Valenta <mvalenta at lycosmail dot com> writes:

    MV> Here is my summary of our discussion so far.  
    MV> [snip]

Nice work.  Thanks Matthew.

Here are some comments and a suggestion:

    MV> plplot:
    MV>   License:		GPL?

PLplot license is GPL, so you can remove the question mark above.  Tiny
parts of it are derived from xterm.c from the X11 distribution, whose
copying conditions are compatible with GPL.  Take this as an authoritaive
statement of mine, as I had to address this issue when building the plplot
package for Debian (a distribution that is very picky as WRT copying
conditons and copyrights).

    MV>   Web page: 	http://emma.la.asu.edu/plplot/

For those happy users of Debian, you could mention:

    Debian package: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/math/plplot.html


You might also include a pointer to GtkDataBox, a Gtk widget for plotting
numerical data.  Its home page is:

   http://www.eudoxos.de/gtk/gtkdatabox/index.html

Here is the description (from the home page):

    GtkDatabox is designed to display  large amounts of numerical data fast
    and easy.  Thousands  of data   points (X  and  Y  coordinate)  may  be
    displayed  without any problems,     zooming and scrolling  is  already
    included (this will be optional in the near future).

    The widget may be used as display for oscilloscopes or other
    applications that need to display fast changes in their data.  At the
    present time only dotted curves or lines may be used, but color
    representation of 3-dimensional data is planned for the near future.

Although GtkDataBox is not meant to be a scientific plotting tool, it may
be a source of inspiration.

There is at least one application that uses GtkDataBox: Gfit, found at:

    http://www.eudoxos.de/gtk/gfit/index.html

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