Re: mac grapher for linux
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<jordigh@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm forwarding this to the d-science list, where this stuff is often discussed.
>
> On 13/05/2008, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013+debian@gmail.com> 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
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> 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.
>
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