Applications: Graphing Tools

Commercial: Visual Thought
Contact: Confluent, Inc., +1 415-586-8700, fax 586-883; info@confluent.com
WWW: <URL:http://www.confluent.com>
Description:
    Visual Thought is a UNIX diagramming & flowcharting tool; use it to create
    and edit software design diagrams, flowcharts, dataflow, network,
    organizational, and circuit/logic diagrams for presentation and
    documentation graphics.  Features include editable drag-and-drop palettes,
    nearly 100 shapes, rubberbanding connections, text handling and
    graphical editing, arbitary pan and zoom, 100-level undo, page layout,
    "live" editing, image import, sound recording, and more.
Notes:
    Confluent offers a free evaluation CD-ROM.


Commercial: Robochart
Contact: Digital Insight, rc-sales@digins.com  +1 805 583 3627
WWWL <URL:http://www.csn.net/digins>
Ftp: ftp.csn.net (199.117.160.134) in /digins (information and demo)
Description:
    Interactive editor for flow diagrams (dataflow, flowchart, org
    chart, etc.), with direct manipulation drag & drop interface.
    Supports hierarchical diagrams, colors, fonts, and several line and
    object types (including images). Define custom commands to be within
    diagrams. PostScript, MIF, HPGL, and ASCII output formats.

Free: dstool
    XView-based program that plots Lorenz Attractors and other chaotic things
    in real time.  Also includes a mathematical expression interpreter.
    ftp: macomb.tn.cornell.edu

Free: ACE/gr --  graph and analysis program, xvgr
Ftp: ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu; xvgr-2.10pl1.tar.Z in /CCALMR/pub/acegr
    Handles x-y scatterplots, lineplots, bargraphs, FFT analysis, running
    averages, polynomial fits, etc.

Free: robot - a scientific graph plotting and data analysis tool 
Contact: Robin Corbet <corbet@astro.psu.edu>
Description:
    Graph plotting in various styles & axes; Data manipulation - arithmetic,
    functions, smoothing, folding, sorting; Fitting to data using Gaussians,
    polynomials, Lorentzians, and/or user defined functions; Annotation of
    graphs; log files;  Commands with loops etc.; Colour; PostScript output.
Ftp: ftp.astro.psu.edu in pub/astrod
Ftp: files: robotx0.48.tar.Z - everything
Ftp: files: RobotManual.ps.Z - just the documentation.
Ftp: files: robot.sun4.Z  - binary built on a SPARCstation.
Requirements:
    Robot is XView based. User interface portions of code are written in
    'C'. Data manipulation code is written in FORTRAN. Hence a FORTRAN
    compiler is also required or the public domain f2c package.
    Alternatively, a SPARC binary is available by anonymous ftp.
Notes:
    The latest "numbered" version is robotx0.48.tar.Z (robot-beta.tar.gz
    contains a number of bug fixes). Binaries for DEC (Ultrix) and IBM PC
    clones (LINUX) are also available.