From octave-sources-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jan 20 14:05:09 1999
Subject: Re: octave and xfig
From: Karim Elaagouby <karim at idealab dot com>
To: octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:05:14 -0800

"S.Hefti" wrote:
> 
> README.hgi/hefti/19-Jan-1999
> 
> hgi --- Hefti's Graphic Interface (for Octave)
> 
> This is to announce a prototype of the hgi. It is in
> early development stage and definitively not productive.
> Nonetheless, I would like to outline the idea.
> 
> Motivation:
> 
> I am not satisfied with the plot capabilities of Octave.  I have been
> searching the public-domain market for quite some time to find a
> plotting package that suits me, but without luck. In particular, I
> think there is no means in Octave to overlay images and 2D-plots. This
> is where hgi might help.

There's a really nice package called Interviews from Stanford University
and 
Silicon Graphics. It's in public domain.
Interviews is written in C++ and has a powerfull library. In addition
it's 
very well documented. 
Interviews and its documentation reside at
ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/interviews

I use it as a part of NEURON, a simulation program for modeling neural
electrical
activity. http://neuron.duke.edu
Neuron uses a C++-like scripting language and makes calls to Interviews
through
its interface.

Interviews run on on all flavors of UNIX and has been successfully 
ported, along with Neuron, to windows 95/NT and Mac.

If you are interested, you can ask Michael Hines (hines at yale dot edu) for
help.
He is the author of NEURON and Interviews interface with Neuron. On the
top of that Michael is a really nice guy.

You can also have a look at the Neuron sources to get an idea on how
Interviews is
interfaced with NEURON.

Good luck,


P.S. I wish I had time to do it myself !

--
Karim Elaagouby
Information Systems Analyst
idealab!      http://www.idealab.com