ANN: disipyl - a 2D and 3D Python and Jython plotting library

Paul Magwene p.magwene@snet.net
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 04:02:49 GMT


DESCRIPTION:
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    disipyl is an object-oriented wrapper around the DISLIN plotting
library.  DISLIN is a powerful and flexible multiplatform (Win32, Unix,
Linux, etc.) library designed for displaying scientific data. DISLIN's
author, Helmut Michels, has made available a DISLIN plotting extension for
the Python programming language (see http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin/ for
more details).

    disipyl provides a set of classes which represent various aspects
of DISLIN plots, as well as providing some easy to use classes for
creating commonly used plot formats (e.g. scatter plots, histograms, 3-D
surface plots).  A major goal in designing the library was to facilitate
interactive data exploration and plot creation.

    Documentation, a tutorial, and a demo program are included.  The
    library
has been tested on Win32, Linux, and FreeBSD, but I anticipate that it
should work on any platform which can make use of Python, NumPy, and the
DISLIN python extensions.

    Feedback, comments, and critique are gladly accepted (email:
paul.magwene@yale.edu).



VERSION:
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    This is release 0.6 of disipyl.

CHANGES:
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New in this release:

* support for plot interaction (record plot coordinates via mouse
clicks)

* new mechanism for quering disipyl objects about the options they support

* cleanup of data/option setting mechanisms for disiypl objects

* Jython support (when DISLIN java library available - most but not all classes)

* updated documentation and tutorial


URL:
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    You can find disipyl at:
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pmm34/disipyl.html