On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm forwarding this to the d-science list, where this stuff is often > discussed. > > On 13/05/2008, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone here ever used the "Grapher" application that all Macs come > with? > > It is a very nice piece of software with support for 3D and many types > > of equations, and it's very useful for math/science purposes. Is > > there something comparable for Debian or Linux in general? I was > > looking on Google but couldn't find any convincing replacements. Most > > of the stuff I see is very rudimentary 2D graphers that only allow a > > very limited amount (like 3) equations. I saw labplot, but I didn't > > try that because I don't want all the KDE dependencies (which, as an > > xfce user, means a lot of extra packages). > > I also gnuplot, which seems to be decent except it doesn't have the > > nice friendly GUI of mac's grapher. Neither of these are great as > > substitutes, but I haven't found anything better. > > > > So basically, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas before I go > > invest the time into learning how to use gnuplot?
I think you should look into SAGE's plotter. For 2d it uses matplotlib and four 3d it uses jmol and tachyon. http://www.sagemath.org/ > > > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > > Jimmy Wu > > Registered Linux User #454138 > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > I use VTK myself, which is certainly not exactly friendly as it > requires programming a bit, but it produces very high-quality > graphics. I mostly use it with its Octave frontend, Octaviz. If you're > comfortable with Octave-like (Matlab-like) syntax, you should > definitely give it a try. > > gnuplot is very widespread and many people swear by it. Gnuplot's 2d > plotting is quite good, but its 3d graphs look ugly compared to the > VTK output. It certainly seems worthwhile to invest some time to learn > about Gnuplot. > > I know we have more options, but I can't remember what they are. > There's a pretty big graphics package that I think had to do with KDE. > I seem to recall the maintainer had a female name, but it looks like > it's not Miriam Ruiz like usual. > > - Jordi G. H. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
