From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Mar  9 15:05:22 1999
Subject: Re: Is there anybody out here? 
From: Jonathan King <kingjw at missouri dot edu>
To: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:05:07 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 doolin at alpha-8 dot CE dot Berkeley dot EDU wrote:
> Might want to check out vis5d:
> 
> http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis5d.html
> 
> They will have all the contouring code one
> would ever need.

Although they make no secret of the fact that their code is a resource
hog. :-)  But, hey, this is GPL.
 
> There is also the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT):
> 
> http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gmt.html
> 
> This should be good for a lot of back-end functionality.

Well...maybe.  I'm a bit familiar with GMT, and they're called *mapping*
tools rather than *graphing* or *plotting* tools for a reason.  They have
also had a nasty habit of introducing incompatibilities in new releases,
and, sure enough, they did it again in their 3.1 version.
 
> Basically, there is ALOT of code out there freely
> available for very high end workstations, written
> by scientists and engineers for Sun's, HP's etc.
> x86 really didn't show up on their radar screen 
> until very lately, so linux is way down the list 
> of supported platforms.  

...and NT is probably even farther down the list, which is an
issue for Octave, I presume.

jking