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The LinUX Scientific Software Map
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High Quality Free Scientific Software
Part 3/3
SCIENTIFIC DATA PLOTTING PACKAGES
GNUPLOT -- 3.5. Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive
function plotting utility for UNIX, MSDOS, and VMS platforms.
The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you
don't have to pay for it). It was originally intended as a
graphical program which would allow scientists and students to
visualize mathematical functions and data. Gnuplot supports many
different types of terminals, plotters, and printers (including
many color devices, and pseudo-devices like LaTeX) and is easily
extensible to include new devices. Slackware comes with gnuplot
binary. ftp dartmouth.edu /pub/gnuplot, WWW
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot_info.html
PlotMTV -- 1.4.1 --19/Dec/95. PlotMTV is a multipurpose X11
plotting program and specializes in contour plots, but it can
also handle 2D and 3D plots. The plot-types supported are:
contour plots (rectangular grid, as well as triangular mesh), 2D
line and scatter plots (x-vs-y), 3D surface , line and scatter
plots, vector plots, probability plots, histograms, barcharts.
The program has an rough but functional Graphical User Interface,
through which it is possible to zoom in, zoom out, pan, toggle
between 2D and 3D plots, and rotate 3D plots. Both color and
grayscale postscript output are supported. ftp
tanqueray.eecs.berkeley.edu /pub, ftp ftp.x.org
/contrib/applications, WWW
http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/cornell_proceedings/tutorials/Plotmtv/overview.html,
WWW http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/plotmtv/plotmtv.html
XGraph with animation. XGraph with animation is a modification
of the popular XGraph plotting program. It is an interactive
plotting program for creating line plots and restricted surface
plots. WWW http://jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Codes/xgraph/
robot -- 0.48 -- 30/Oct/93. XView based scientific graph
plotting program. Includes data manipulation, fitting, numerous
plot styles. Graphs can be saved as PostScript files. ftp
ftp.astro.psu.edu /pub/astrod, ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/math.
ACE/gr -- (xmgr 4.00 alpha -- motif, xvgr 2.10pl1 -- xview). A
general 2D XY plotting package with mouse-powered editing, pan,
zoom, output in PostScript, HPGL, and Framemaker format. ftp
ftp.teleport.com /pub/users/pturner/acegr, ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/math, WWW
http://www.teleport.com/~pturner/acegr/
GLE -- 3.3h -- 09/Mar/95 tool to create 2&3 Dim. graph. GLE is
a high quality graphics package for scientists, combining a user
friendly interface with a full range of facilities for producing
publication quality graphs, diagrams, posters and slides. GLE
provides LaTeXquality fonts together with a flexible graphics
module which allows the user to specify any feature of a graph
(down to the line width of the subticks, for example). Complex
pictures can be drawn with user defined subroutines and simple
looping sturctures. Current device drivers support DECWINDOWS,
REGIS, TEK4010, all PC graphics cards, VT100s, HP-Plotters,
PostScript Printers, EPSON Printers and LaserJet Printers. ftp
wuarchive.wustl.edu /graphics/graphics/packages/gle, ftp
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/math, WWW
http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/~dean/glelist/
Gri -- 2.050 -- 08/Oct/95. Gri is a programming language for
drawing science-style graphs. It is not mouse-driven, and it
does not draw business-style graphs (e.g. pie charts,
three-dimensional graphs). Gri has substantial power in advanced
applications. It has been proven to be easy to learn; for simple
applications, the learning curve is less than an hour. Many
users regard Gri as the plotting equivalent of the LaTeX document
preparation system. ftp ftp.phys.ocean.dal.ca
/users/kelley/gri/, WWW
http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~kelley/gri/Gri1.html#Top
DAVID (DAta VIsualization and Diagnostics) system is entirely in
'C' and runs within the Unix operating system, under the X Window
System, Version 11R5 and can be printed through any printer
supporting PostScript. Graphics can be displayed on black and
white as well as color graphics monitors, and can handle graphics
on multiple windows as well as on multiple graphics displays
simultaneously. DAVID facilitates extraction, tracking,
quantification and mathematization of evolving and interacting
amorphous objects, from e.g time-dependent multidimensional
simulations. DAVID can also provide a highly interactive way to
compare different variables with two variable distribution and
juxtaposition. It can extract skeletal representation with an
interactively controlled smoothing algorithm even from a noisy
environment. DAVID can interactively analyze skeletal lines,
graphs, display and label quasi-local slope and curvature. An
interactive threshold-adjusting tool provides a way to discover
hidden coherent structures. DAVID can also produce journal-ready
and visual aid hardcopies. Compilation is required for Linux.
WWW
http://vizlab.rutgers.edu/vizlab_group_files/RESEARCH/VISIOMETRICS/DAVID/ind
ex.html
Mesh-TV is an interactive graphical analysis tool for visualizing
and analyzing data on 2D and 3D meshes. It is a general purpose
tool in that it handles many different mesh types, provides many
different ways of viewing the data, and is virtually
hardware/vendor independent while still providing graphics at the
speed of the native graphics hardware. Linux port is available.
Binaries for other workstation and documentation is here. WWW
http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/meshtv/mesh.html
Xgraphic is a very easy to use graphic software to plot curves on
Unix workstations. WWW
http://blanche.polytechnique.fr/XGRAPHICS/xgraphics.html
xgobi -- 1/Nov/94. XGobi is an X Window application for
interactively exploring data. Current functionality includes
brushing, identification, and the editing of connected lines, as
well as rotation and the grand tour, with several interactive
projection pursuit indices. Several functions can be linked so
that actions in one window are promptly reflected in another.
WWW http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/XGobi/
xfarbe is a contouring program for iso-lines with the following
characteristics: * high quality nonlinear interpolation with
bicubics on a rectangular grid * area filling capability *
X-Window and Postscript output * Customization with resource file
* Interactive labeling of contour lines * Interactive data
probing for value and derivatives * Placing of symbols according
to information read from a file * Exact location extrema and
saddle points * Computation of profiles. WWW http://www.fhi-
berlin.mpg.de/grz/pub/xfarbe.html
Xdang does vector plots, contour plots, and color maps. It
slices and dices 3d data and has cartesian and cylindrical
coordinates. WWW http://barkley.ME.Berkeley.EDU/~dan/
yplot -- 0.9 -- 10/Jun/96. yplot is an interface to the PLplot
plotting library (see next section) written as an extension of
Yorick. This combination allows one to quickly and easily create
high-quality scientific plots from data, even in large structured
files. yplot implements 2D line and scatter plots, contour
plots, 3D surface, mesh and scatter and line plots. The user is
given full control over every aspect of the plot, including
symbol types, line types, label placement, fonts, etc. ftp
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/math/
GENERAL PURPOSE GRAPHIC LIBRARIES
Vogl -- 1.6.2g. VOGL is a device portable graphics library that
tries to be Silicon Graphics Iris GL compatible. Our intention
is that any VOGL program will compile unchanged on a machine
running SGI GL. Supported devices are: postcript, sun
workstation, apollo workstations, X11, tektronix, hpgl, dxy, and
the ibm pc cards. This library is callable in C and Fortran.
WWW http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~philippe/vogl/
Ygl emulates SGI's GL routines under X11. Included are most of
the two-dimensional graphics routines, the queue device routines,
some query routines, doublebuffering, RGB mode with arbitrary
visuals and ditering and most of the window attribute routines.
ftp ftp.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE /pub/source/X11, WWW
http://WWW.thp.Uni- Duisburg.DE/Ygl/ReadMe.html
libglto -- 16/Dec/94. Libglto is an X Windows based version of
GL. It allows programs that depend on GL to be run on any X
Windows based machine. WWW
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/Software/software/libglto_00001/approval.html
Mesa -- 2.0 -- 10/Oct/96. Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an
API which is very similar to that of OpenGL($$). To the extent
that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine.
However, the author makes no claim that Mesa is in any way a
compatible replacement for OpenGL. ftp iris.ssec.wisc.edu
/pub/Mesa, WWW http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Mesa.html
Following are some packages that could work with Mesa:
GLUT -- 3.1. OpenGL Utility Toolkit. It is a nice OpenGL
toolkit which allows one to write OpenGL applications without
having to know anything about the window system and its interface
to OpenGL. It is much nicer than the aux and tk toolkits
initially used by SGI. It works with Mesa too. WWW
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/mjk_asd/glut3/glut3.html, WWW
http://www.sgi.com/Technology/openGL/glut.html
f90gl is a fortran interface for Mesa and GLUT, which can also be
used with OpenGL. It provides both fortran 77 and fortran 90
interfaces. WWW http://math.nist.gov/f90gl/
Togl is a Tk widget for OpenGL rendering. WWW
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Togl.html
Dore -- 6.0.1 -- 20/Feb/95. (Dynamic Object Rendering
Environment). Dore' is a powerful 3D graphics subroutine
library. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating
graphics applications. It is also easy to use, portable, and
extendable. This version has interfaces/drivers to X11, PEX,
IrisGL, OpenGL, Postscript and more. It has been ported onto
most unix systems, including Linux and FreeBSD. It has also been
ported to Windows NT 3.5. ftp ftp.wustl.edu
/graphics/graphics/packages/dore, ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/libs/graphics/
TAGL -- 2.2 -- Mar/96 (Threedee Advanced Graphic Libraryis) is a
C++ library for 3D graphics, gouraud shading, ZBuffering, a
subset of SGI-GL. ftp sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/libs/graphics/,
ftp sunsite.unc.edu /pub/packages/development/graphics, ftp
ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de
/pub/sci/virtual-reality/software/tagl/tagl21src.tgz, ftp
ftp.wustl.edu /graphics/graphics/tagl, WWW
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ki/info/tagl.html
Grxlib -- 1.03g -- 28/Aug/95. This is the GRX library that is
used under the DJGPP DOS Extender. It has been converted to work
under the Linux OS with support from the svgalib library. ftp
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/libs/graphics/
EZWGL. The EZ Widget and Graphics Library (EZWGL) is a set of C
functions for developing graphical user interface (GUI) and
writing graphics applications under the X window system. The
goal of EZWGL is to provide a tool that simplifies the design of
graphics applications under the X window system programming
environment. The EZWGL programming interface is designed to be
simple, and yet still meet the needs of moderately complex
graphics applications. WWW http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~mzou/EZWGL/
AGL (Astronet Graphic Library) is a graphic library designed to
be portable on different systems, with both a C and a FORTRAN
programming interface. ftp sisifo.arcetri.astro.it /pub/agl/
gd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw
images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and
paste from other images, and flood fills, and write out the
result as a .GIF file. WWW http://www.boutell.com/gd/
cd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw
images complete with lines, arcs, rectangles, polygons, text, and
multiple colors. most geometric shapes can be filled or have a
hatch pattern as well. The output is a CGM file. WWW
http://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/~lorax/cgm/cd.html
lib3d -- 0.1.7 -- 28/Jul/96. A fast z-buffer rendering library
with an api optimized for software implementation. Provides flat
shading with ambient - directional lighting. Currently makes 25k
poly/sec in a dithered 8 bit Xwindows visual. ftp
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/devel/
WORD PROCESSING, TYPESETTING AND OFFICE SOFTWARE
StarOffice -- 3.1 (second beta). Star Office 3.1 is a suite of
office productivity applications containing StarWriter 3.1 (word
processor), StarCalc 3.1 (spreadsheet), StarDraw 3.1 (graphics
and presentation package), StarImage 3.1 (image manipulation)
StarChart 3.1 (bar-, pie- and other charts) and StarMath 3.1
(formula design). StarOffice 3.1 makes heavy use of common code
in shared libraries, therefore using relatively few resources for
the level of functionality. The final version will be free of
charge for non- commercial use. You will have to buy a license
for commercial use. ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/staroffice, WWW
http://alkor.mt2.tu-harburg.de/pub/staroffice/
LyX (formally Lyrix) -- 0.10.0 -- 30/Jul/96. LyX is a
word-processor for X11, using LaTeX (2e) to format the output.
It allows easy access to LaTeX formatting commands and
almost-WYSIWYG display. latex2e is necessary to compile the
documents and print. Unlike xword, it is very much usable now,
and is undergoing rapid development. Unlike WordPerfect, it is
small, fast, and free (GPL'd). While the author still considers
it alpha, he think it's quite stable. The biggest lapse now is
documentation, which will be forthcoming shortly. ftp
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xapps/editors, WWW
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html, WWW
http://www-pu.informatik.uni- tuebingen.de/~ettrich
Cicero is a wordprocessor running under X11R6 using Motif2.0.
Cicero deals with mulitple fonts at any size you like and X can
display. It comes with an easy to use fontinstaller, that
installs Postscript Level 1 Fonts in X, ghostscript, TeX (dvips)
and Cicero. This is a must because without these unique fonts
WYSIWYG is not possible. WWW
http://zeus.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~weis/cicero.html
*Word (early development). It is a wordprocessor being developed
via the Internet by a lot of enthousiast people. Main
development is done on the Linux-platform, but it is designed for
portability. It will support X-windows, under a variety of
window- managers, and text-mode, through a curses-interface.
This is one of the Linux Projects. WWW
http://www.hio.hen.nl/~alberink/word.html
SciTeXt -- alpha 3 -- 11/Nov/96. SciTeXt is a new wordprocessor
for UNIX - Systems. It tries to combine the requirement of a
modern office-packet. The following list enumerates some of its
most important features. o User-Interface --- Objectoriented
handling, Full WYSIWYG with free choice of zoom, Supports Type-1
PostScript fonts, Contextsensitive toolbars with bubble help,
Independent of language by a special Translation-Table, Free
keyboard and menu shortcuts with a configurable, ActionEvent-
Table Online help with own Tcl/Tk helpbrowser, Userinstallation
with Tcl/Tk-Script. o Wordprocessing --- Parapraph- and
Documenttemplates, Auto-Correction, spellchecker, Thesaurus; no
data yet :-(, Footnotes, table of contents, indices,
chapternumbering, glossary, Itemize and enumeration. o Layout
--- Free frames for text, graphic etc., Formulars, Tables,
charts, mathmatical plots. o Documentexchange --- Send and
receive SciTeXt documents via E-Mail, Drag & Drop, Many import-
and exportfilters for text und graphic, Faxing of documents. o
Miscellaneous --- Variable choice of printer with automatic
detection of usability Usable as an Integrated Development
Environment similar to WEB WWW
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~SciTeXt/, WWW
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~SciTeXt/archives/getSciTeXt.html
TeX Shell -- not really a word processor. If you don't mind
typing TeX/LaTeX commands and you are just tired of the
editing-compiling-viewing cycle, TeX Shell is what you should
get. It allows you to edit your document and then click to
compile, click to view and click to print. There are three such
programs available as far as I know of. TS: TeXShell for
X-Window (Tcl/Tk) ftp sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/tex look
for tsYYMMDD.tgz X-Window Shell for TeX (OpenLook or Xaw/Xaw3d))
WWW
http://www.tm.bi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/personal/marc/xtexshell.html
xtem: a graphical user interface to control the TeX/LaTeX
facilities. WWW
http://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html
Linuxdoc-SGML -- 1.5. Linuxdoc-SGML is a text-formatting package
based on SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), which
allows you to produce LaTeX, HTML, GNU info, LyX, RTF, and plain
ASCII (via groff) from a single source; due to the flexible
nature of SGML many other target formats are possible. WWW
http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/cgi-bin/nph-
gateway/hphalle6/~schwarz/linuxdoc-sgml/
Quikscript is a portable typesetting system, written in
PostScript. It enables documents to be prepared on any type of
hardware, using visible layout marks to control the appearance of
the output, and produce output on a PostScript printer by
despatching Qs and the document file to the device. No
processing is performed by the host hardware; all processing is
done within the printer. WWW http://www.cs.adfa.oz.au/~gfreeman/
Qist (formerly called Vinea). Qist is an SGML document
engineering utility for the X Window system. It is written in
Tcl/Tk, and features a nice graphical user interface for
manipulating SGML documents. It does not do anything remarkable
by itself. It merely acts as a kind of a launch pad for several
free SGML utilities (so it serves as a TeX Shell too), covering
the whole process - writing, validating, formatting, previewing
and printing the finished document. Vinea also makes use of the
bibliography database features of LaTeX and GNU refer, which
makes referencing other works extremely easy. WWW
http://www.uta.fi/~f1sale/qist/index.html
Doc from InterView Package -- available in Slackware. Doc is a
WYSIWYG document editor. In addition to text, doc contains a
simple table editor, and it can import graphics generated by the
drawing editor Idraw (also in Interviews) and several types of
rasterized images. The editor's functionality and terminology is
modeled loosely after the LaTeX docu- ment preparation system.
In particular, doc stores its documents in a format that is
reminiscent of LaTeX; you can translate many LaTeX documents into
doc format with relatively little effort.
The Andrew User Interface System (AUIS) -- 63L4. AUIS is an
integrated set of tools that allow you to create, use, and mail
multi-media documents and apps containing formatted text and
embedded objects. This package is aimed at the WORD PROCESSING
audience. ftp sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/andrew/, ftp
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu /pub/AUIS/bin-dist/, WWW
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/atk-ftp/web/andrew-home.html
MathSpad Editor. The editing tool MathSpad has been developed to
facilitate writing mathematically oriented documents. At first,
the main goal was to create an interface for editing structured
expressions combined with plain text. The editor was built so as
not to restrict the user to any mathematical convention, notation
or symbol set, since the initial target group often created new
notations and symbols. The principle design element introduced
in order to realise this requirement was the notion of a stencil
consisting of a number of templates. The flexibility built into
the original design has meant that the system is also useful for
the creation of structured texts other than mathematical texts,
such as HTML documents, these applications not having been
envisaged when work on the project began. WWW
http://www.win.tue.nl/win/cs/wp/mathspad/
Xy-pic -- 3.2 -- 18/Oct/95. Xy-pic is a package for typesetting
a variety of graphs and diagrams with TeX. Xy-pic works with
most formats (including LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and plain
TeX), in particular Xy-pic is provided as a LaTeX2e `supported
package'. It uses the principle of `logical composition of
visual components'. It is structured as several modules, each
defining a mnemonic plain text notation for a particular kind of
graphical object or structure. Example objects are arrows,
curves, frames, and colouring/rotation on drivers that support
it; these can be organised in matrix, directed graph, path,
polygon, knot, and 2-cell structure. ftp ftp.diku.dk
/diku/users/kris/TeX/, ftp ftp.mpce.mq.edu.au /pub/maths/TeX/,
WWW http://www.mpce.mq.edu.au/~ross/Xy-pic.html, WWW
http://www.diku.dk/users/kris/Xy-pic.html
Lollipop is `TeX made easy'. Lollipop is a macro package that
functions as a toolbox for writing TeX macros. It was my
intention to make macro writing so easy that implementing a fully
new layout in TeX would become a matter of less than an hour for
an average document, and that it would be a task that could be
accomplished by someone with only a very basic training in TeX
programming. Lollipop is not compatible with plain TeX and
LaTeX, though. Even though LaTeX is used pretty much all over
the scientific world, developing styles in Lollipop is so much
more easier than in LaTeX. ftp math.ucla.edu /pub/eijkhout/tex/
Thot is a structured document editor, offering a graphical
WYSIWYG interface under X-Windows. It offers the usual
functionality of a word processor, but it also processes the
document structure. It includes a large set of advanced tools,
such as a spell checker and an index generator, and it allows to
export documents to common formats like HTML and LaTeX. WWW
http://opera.inrialpes.fr/thot/
DocuGen -- 2.0. DocuGen is a collection of several programs, or
tools, that can be used to help you more easily create complex
documents. With the same source file, the DocuGen tools will
allow you to generate professional documents in HTML, ASCII Text,
and Platform Independent Text. This can save hours of time that
would otherwise be spent retyping and reformatting text you had
already written. DocuGen seems to be mainly used by HTML authors
because of the extensive support for HTML. Document templates,
include files, auto image sizing, detailed date and time
functions and much more all ease an HTML author's job of keeping
an entire Web site running smoothly with their own specialized
"look-and-feel". WWW http://www.io.com/~gregholt/docugen/
Didot (early development). The Didot Project is the creation of
a publishing software package. We plan to implement a lot of
common and uncommon features but at the moment we are in the
early phases of the implementation. The component software
architecture will support easy creation and manipulation of
compound documents, so you can use Didot as a word processor.
WWW http://physkn00.phys-te.uni- sb.de/~didot/
Lout -- 3.08 -- Jun/96. Lout document formatting system reads a
high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX
and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on many laser
printers and graphic display devices. Plain text output is also
available. ftp ftp.cs.su.oz.au /jeff/lout, ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/editors
Dtop -- Beta 1.4 (The official release will be commercial).
Chinese-English desktop publishing package (Behavior Design
Corporation, Taiwan). It has full-featured high quality WYSWYG
DTP functions, including text, equations, graphics, tables,
images, copy-paste, etc. Note that the documentation is in
Chinese. ftp ftp.ifcss.org
/pub/software/linux/X11R6/dtop1.4/README.DTP, ftp ftp.ifcss.org
/pub/software/linux/X11R6/dtop1.4/pub/
Here is a document that shows how to combine text, pictures,
figures and images in a LaTeX document. ftp math.uwaterloo.ca
/figsInLatex/
X-WINDOW GUI CONSTRUCTION
Hv (For Hot Views) is a library for developing graphical user
interfaces for scientific and engineering applications. It is
based on X, Xt and Motif and has been tested on most Unix flavors
including Linux. It also include Hvplot, a scientific plotting
package built using the Hv graphical user interface development
library. WWW http://cebafb.cebaf.gov/~heddle/Hv/
XForms -- 0.81 -- 5/Jul/96 (free for non-commercial use and
binary only). XForms is a graphical user interface toolkit and
builder based on Xlib for X Window Systems. XForms is a portable
and efficient C library that can be used in both C and C++
programs. The library works in all visuals and all depths (1-24)
and comes with a rich set of objects such as buttons (of many
flavors, including color XPMs as labels) , browsers, sliders, and
menus integrated into an elegant event/object callback execution
model that allows fast and easy construction of X-applications.
It also has OpenGL (on SGI) and Mesa support. The Forms Library
is very intuitive and simple to use. It is by far the
easiest-to-learn and easiest-to-use system for X GUI development.
You can start writing XForms based programs within an hour once
you go though the first five pages of the documentation and have
run and read a couple of the demos. Actually, you don't have to
write any code, the bundled GUI builder will do it for you. ftp
bloch.phys.uwm.edu /pub/xforms, ftp ftp.cs.ruu.nl /pub/XFORMS,
WWW http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
PyXForms is a binding between Python and XForms. WWW
http://ultra7.unl.edu.ar:80/pyxforms/
Qt -- 1.0 -- 01/Oct/96. Qt is an object-oriented framework for
developing graphical user interface applications. It includes
around 100 classes, both GUI-specific and general utility
classes, as well as support for component programming. ftp
ftp.nvg.unit.no /pub/linux/qt, ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/devel/c++, WWW http://www.troll.no/
wxWindows -- 1.66B -- 21/May/96. wxWindows is a toolkit for
developing multi- platform, graphical applications from the same
body of C++ code. X11, motif, xview, open-look, ms-windows. ftp
ftp.aiai.ed.ac.uk /pub/packages/wxwin, ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/X11/devel/wxWin, WWW
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jacs/wxwin.html
Fresco is an object-oriented user interface system for
development of window-based applications. It is a design
evolution of the InterViews toolkit that was developed at
Stanford University in the late `80s and early `90s. The Fresco
architecture brings together objects that traditionally have not
mixed. User interface objects such as sliders, buttons, and text
editors - as well as the "layout" objects used to compose them -
can mix arbitrarily in Fresco with graphical objects (those that
perform graphical transformations). Fresco uses a standard
object model, CORBA , which allows for object distribution and
provides a standardized, high-level notation called IDL for
object definition. Fresco also provides support for Tcl-based
scripting, multi-threading, resolution independence, and
internationalization. Fresco is currently under standardization
process within the X Consortium. WWW
http://www.faslab.com/fresco/HomePage.html, WWW
http://www.clark.net/pub/ecn/fresco.html for Linux specific info.
VXP -- 2.0 -- 10/Feb/95. VXP is an integrated Motif graphical
user interface (GUI) builder. Application developer can build a
working Motif GUI in minutes, simply by pointing and clicking on
predefined icons which represent Motif widgets, then dragging and
dropping them on the design space. VXP provides developer an
environment to design a Motif GUI for your application
interactively, and generates the C code required to produce the
GUI. VXP also lets developer edit non-GUI code of the
application, compile the application and test it. WWW
http://www.shsu.edu/~stdyxc05/VXP/
Amulet (Automatic Manufacture of Usable and Learnable Editors and
Toolkits) is a user interface development environment for C++ and
is portable across X11 and Microsoft Windows NT. A Macintosh
version will be available probably in late '95. Amulet helps you
create graphical, interactive user interfaces for your software.
More than just another free virtual toolkit, Amulet includes many
features specifically designed to make the creation of
highly-interactive, graphical, direct manipulation user
interfaces significantly easier, including a prototype-instance
object model, constraints, high-level input handling including
automatic undo, and a full set of widgets. WWW
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/www/amulet-home.html
SNAPIX -- 3.1.9 -- 29/Mar/96. X11/Motif user interface and
application generator. Snapix is based on a complete, typed,
structured, event driven, object oriented language which offers:
* ease of use, wellknown C syntax (no lengthy learning curve), *
short development cycle, * very scalable and maintainable, *
small memory and disk footprint, fast execution speed, * high
reliability. The package includes: * an advanced, structured,
object oriented language, * a graphics editor which generates
Snapix source code, * an interpreter/compiler, * a runtime/driver
for standalone application usage, * full documentation: ref.
manual, installation and user guides, (poscript files), and
online hypertext help. personal use (nonprofit, noncommercial)
and education read package embedded COPYRIGHTS file before usage.
ftp ftp.adnt.fr /linux
Marx is an interpreted script language based on a C-like syntax.
It provides a quick way of creating Graphical User Interfaces in
X windows. Besides GUI building, marx also provides simplified
schemes for UNIX process control, direct shell command/script
execution and inter-client communication via sockets. WWW
http://spock.ece.drexel.edu/marx/
XF allows you to interactively build and modify a user interface
based upon the Tcl/Tk package. The output generated by XF is a
script that can be executed with wish or any other Tcl/Tk
interpreter. WWW http://www.cimetrix.com/sven/xf.html
SpecTcl -- 0.1a -- 8/Nov/95. An alpha release of a Visual Basic
style GUI builder for Tk/TCL 4.0/7.4 from SUN. ftp
ftp.aud.alcatel.com /tcl/ftp.smli.com/, ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/devel/lang/tcl
V is a portable C++ GUI Framework intended to develop a wide
variety of applications on different graphical interface
platforms. It is very complete and suitable for a large majority
of custom GUI applications. Applications developed using V will
have the look and feel of the native platform, yet will be
portable across platforms. Most standard GUI objects are
supported by V, including windows with menus, status bars, tool
bars, and a drawing canvas; modal and modeless dialogs with the
most common controls (buttons, lists, labels, text entry, check
and radio buttons, etc.); and portable printing support. WWW
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wampler/
MrEd is a graphical user interface (GUI) development environment.
MrEd's underlying language is Scheme, extended with an object
system and a thread package. The Scheme implementation
(MzScheme) is fast and smoothly integrated with the environment's
graphical primitives (wxWindows). These primitives include
text-editing tools that can be employed within an application for
editing a mixture of text and graphics. WWW
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/mred/index.html
VisualX (early beta). Works/looks similar to Microsoft's Visual
Basic; but based on tcl/Tk. A user generates a user interface by
dragging widgets from a toolbox. Event handlers for these
widgets may be written in C, C++, Smalltalk, or tcl/tk. WWW
http://www.nd.edu/~vx (not yet) contact Dr. Peter Beery
XVisual -- 1.0.1. Xvisual is a system to allow X-users to create
X applications using a visual development environment. Xvisual
supports the Athena 3D widget set (it will support the standard
set soon) and allows visual positioning and planning of an
application. Xvisual also allows the programmer to write C++
code segments and compile these with the visual components as a
'project'. ftp phoenix.bim.napier.ac.uk /pub/xvisual, WWW
http://www.bim.napier.ac.uk/~xvisual/
XPIP. The X Portable Interface Package (XPIP) is a freely
distributed development tool which allows application programmers
to quickly construct graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in an
X-Windows environment. The interface takes the form of a series
of user- definable widgets - buttons, sliders, dials, etc. -
which applications employ for varying parameters, control flow,
input/output, and other alterable processes. Although not nearly
as comprehensive as several commercial and other freeware GUI
packages such as xtoolkit and Tcl/Tk. XPIP provides a balance
between ease of use and sophistication which make it appealing
for the more casual programmer. WWW
http://lightlink.com/lesher/xpip.html
lxb -- 0.4 -- 11/May/96. An X/Motif interactive graphical user
interface builder. With it you can build a GUI made up of Motif
widgets instantiated by clicking on icons, move and resize them
with the mouse, edit their resources, and move about in the
widget heirarchy via the arrow keys. Once the GUI is built,
pressing a button will produce all required C source files to
build the GUI, and an X resource file and Makefile. This version
of lxb is not completed. Not all Motif widgets are included, nor
can all resources be edited. WWW
http://www.umn.edu/nlhome/g257/parki005/lxb/lxb.html
Grafix -- 1.2 -- Nov/95 a C++-package for assisting programmers
to write programs with graphic user interfaces for X-window,
mainly a class library for directly instantiating window objects
and deriving new classes, many realistic example programs. ftp
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/devel
MGUI -- 1.6.1 -- 18/Sep/96. MGUI library has a 100% compatible
API and an identical look & feel in DOS, Windows and Unix
X-Window environments. A manager object automatically positions
and resizes its children, making layout construction simple.
MGUI Designer is a code generator tool that helps programmers in
the construction and maintenance of the application windows. ftp
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/devel/
FL is a GUI toolkit written in C++. It was created to build
in-house applications at Digital Domain for image processing and
3D graphics. FL is designed to be somewhat compatable with the
popular Forms Library, but it is a complete rewrite into C++,
with the Forms objects and function pointers replaced with C++
objects and virtual functions. WWW
http://www.cinenet.net/users/spitzak/fl/whatisfl.html
User Interface Software Tools. A fairly complete list. WWW
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/bam/www/toolnames.html
MISC SCIENTIFIC STUFF FOR LINUX
WEKA -- 2.1 . A machine learning workbench, is a collection of
machine learning methods, linking them together with a common
data file format and an intuitive user- interface. There is a
command line interface to the system which is provided to develop
scripts that analyse and process extremely large volumes of data,
with the user-interface adding a simple guided procedure for
running experiments using different machine learning methods and
data visualisation tools. WWW http://lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/
AERO -- 1.7.0 -- 31/Aug/96. AERO (Animation Editor for Realistic
Object motion) is an X-window based tool for simulation and
visualization of rigid-body systems. AERO contains a 3D scene
editor for designing simple blocks world scenes. Objects may be
placed in space, linked to each other, and forces may be exerted
onto them. AERO can be used for exploring the physical laws of
mechanics and also for generating realistic computer animations.
AERO is available free of charge as public domain software. ftp
ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de /pub/AERO. WWW
http://www.informatik.uni- stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/aero/aero.html
Genghis. This is a graphics simulation that was developed as
part of author's PhD studies. It models the structure and
control system of a well known six legged robot. ftp
daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au /pub/techreports/RDT/code/
COOOL (CWP Object-Oriented Optimization Library). COOOL is a
package of tools for writing optimization code and solving
optimization problems. Our special interest is in solving
inverse problems, but the library should be useful for many
different kinds of problems. COOOL consists of a library of C++
classes which facilitate all aspect of developing optimization
codes. Further, it has a suite of general purpose routines for
solving linear and nonlinear optimization problems. WWW
http://timna.mines.edu/cwpcodes/coool
NAMD is a parallel, object-oriented molecular dynamics program
designed for high performance molecular dynamics simulations of
large biomolecular systems. Linux port is mentioned in their
installation README file. WWW
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/
MOPAC is a general-purpose semi-empirical molecular orbital
package for the study of chemical structures and reactions. ftp
esca.atomki.hu /mopac7/LINUX/
UNCERT is a public domain uncertainty analysis and geostatistical
software package. It was developed for evaluating the inherent
uncertainty in describing subsurface geology, hydraulic
properties, and the migration of hazardous contaminants in
groundwater flow systems. The package is well suited for
evaluating hazardous waste sites and evaluating remediation
methods, but the package also has many general modules which are
usable by researchers from a wide range of disciplines
(especially statistical module that could be useful even if your
are not interested in geology). WWW
http://magma.Mines.EDU:8080/fs_home/wwingle/uncert/
tacg -- 1.5 -- Sep/96. A command line tool for the restriction
enzyme analysis of DNA. ftp mamba.bio.uci.edu /pub/tacg
fetch (Free Extraction Tool for Computational Humanoid) is an
easy swissprot protein sequence retrieval utility. It is text
based. It is available in Perl and Linux binary format compiled
by Perl compiler. It can extract any sequences you want as long
as they are in swissprot sequence database(primarily). Swissprot
is distibuted as a file called 'seq.dat' (around 100 mb, Oct.
1996). fetch creates an index file (seq.idx) for the entries for
speed. WWW http://sonja.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk/fetch_home.html
MOLMOL -- 2.2.0 -- May/96. MOLMOL is a molecular graphics
program for displaying, analyzing, and manipulating the
three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules, with
special emphasis on the study of protein or DNA structures
determined by NMR. ftp ftp.mol.biol.ethz.ch
/pub/software/MOLMOL, ftp ftp.bruker.de /pub/bruker/MOLMOL
RasMol -- 2.5.1 -- 15/Jan/96. RasMol is a molecular graphics
program intended for the visualisation of proteins, nucleic acids
and small molecules. The program is aimed at display, teaching
and generation of publication quality images. ftp
ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk /pub/rasmol
Raster3D is a set of tools for generating high quality raster
images of proteins or other molecules. The core program renders
spheres, triangles, and cylinders with specular highlighting,
Phong shading, and shadowing. It uses an efficient software
Z-buffer algorithm which is independent of any graphics hardware.
WWW http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d/raster3d.html
gOpenMol is the graphics interface to the OpenMol set of
programs. gOpenMol can also be used for the analysis and display
of molecular dynamics trajectories and the display of molecular
orbitals, electron densities and electrostatic potentials from
programs like the GaussianXX. WWW
http://laaksonen.csc.fi/gopenmol/gopenmol.htmls
Babel is a program designed to interconvert a number of file
formats currently used in molecular modeling. The program is
available for Unix (including Linux), DOS and Macs. WWW
http://mercury.aichem.arizona.edu/babel.html
PIMM (Pi-SCF-Molecular Mechanics Program) is a combined
SCF/molecular mechanics program for organic molecules and
complexes, with parameters for compounds of
C,H,N,O,S,P,Si,F,Cl,Br and ions of Li, Na, K, Mg, Ca, Fe, Co, Ni,
Cu, Zn, Ce, In, Zr, Th. It is written in Fortran 77 and tested
on Linux. WWW
http://tutor.oc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de/TZ/AKLindner/pimm_e.html
XtalView is a complete package for solving a macromolecular
crystal structure by isomorphous replacement, including building
the molecular model. It has a simple but comprehensive windows
based interface. Standard file formats are used, which
facilitates communication between XtalView and programs such as
X-PLOR, TNT, and MERLOT. Free for non-commercial use. WWW
http://www.sdsc.edu/CCMS/Packages/XTALVIEW/xtalview.html
CACTVS Tools. A visualization package for chemist. Features: *
A full-featured 2D structure editor (csed), * A 2D structure
browser (csbr), * An Image viewer, which can also compute GIF
images from connectivity alone (csimg), * A multi-spectra viewer
(NMR, IR, UV/VIS, MS), especially usefil for spectra found on the
WWW (csir), * An NMR viewer with rather restricted capabilities,
* An structure data access/download tool for Chemical MIME files
on the WWW (cswa), * A WWW structure database access client
(csws), * An XY grapher for numeric information attached to
structure datasets, * A client for a database of computed NMR
shieldings (cssharc), * A GUI-less basic client which can for
example be used for computation services on the internet (via
dedicated ports or as CGI program) and for command-line function
testing (csts). ftp schiele.organik.uni-erlangen.de /pub/cactvs/
GAMESS is a program for ab initio quantum chemistry. Briefly,
GAMESS can compute wavefunctions ranging from RHF, ROHF, UHF,
GVB, and MCSCF, with CI and MP2 energy corrections available for
some of these. Analytic gradients are available for these SCF
functions, for automatic geometry optimization, transition state
searches, or reaction path following. Computation of the energy
hessian permits prediction of vibrational frequencies. A variety
of molecular properties, ranging from simple dipole moments to
frequency dependent hyperpolarizabilities may be computed. They
have Linux port but is not tested yet. WWW
http://www.msg.ameslab.gov/GAMESS/GAMESS.html
PLATON is a versatile crystallographic tool implementing a large
variety of standard geometrical calculations, tests, utilities,
graphics, and several filters. ftp esca.atomki.hu
/pub/linux/apps/chemistry/platon
ORTEP-III. The Oak Ridge Thermal Ellipsoid Plot (ORTEP) program
is a computer program, written in Fortran, for drawing crystal
structure illustrations. Ball-and-stick type illustrations of a
quality suitable for publication are produced with either spheres
or thermal-motion probability ellipsoids, derived from
anisotropic temperature factor parameters, on the atomic sites.
The program also produces stereoscopic pairs of illustrations
which aid in the visualization of complex arrangements of atoms
and their correlated thermal motion patterns. WWW
http://www.ornl.gov/ortep/ortep.html, ftp
tutor.oc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de /pub/ortep/linux (for Linux
binaries)
RAD is a radiosity program. WWW
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~philippe/rad.html
tierra -- 4.3. This is a program that simulates evolution of
creatures (virtual assembly code programs) to observe the power
of natural selection. ftp tierra.slhs.udel.edu /tierra
XSurface is an X11 application which allows the interactive
design and viewing of three dimensional smooth surfaces using
multiple Bezier patches. ftp swift.eng.ox.ac.uk /pub
Xephem -- 2.8. An interactive astronomy program for all UNIX
platforms, including Linux, plus VMS. Requires X Windows and
Motif. Several static executables are available. ftp
iraf.noao.edu contrib/xephem/
SESAME -- 4.10 -- 24/Oct/94. SESAME stands for "Software
Environment for the Simulatio of Adaptive Modular Systems", a
strongly object oriented simulation system for computational
architectures involving neural networks. ftp omega.gmd.de
/GMD/as/sesame/
SNNS (Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator) is a software simulator
for neural networks on Unix workstations developed at the
Institute for Parallel and Distributed High Performance Systems
(IPVR) at the University of Stuttgart. The goal of the SNNS
project is to create an efficient and flexible simulation
environment for research on and application of neural nets. WWW
http://www.informatik.uni-
stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/projekte/snns/snns.html
nn/xnn is a system for designing, studying and simulating
artificial neural networks. WWW http://www.bgif.no/neureka/
PDP++ . The PDP++ software is a neural-network simulation system
written in C++. It represents the next generation of the PDP
software originally released with the McClelland and Rumelhart
"Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing Handbook", MIT
Press, 1987. WWW
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/CNBC/PDP++/PDP++.html
LightPipes is a portable set of UNIX-style tools written in C. It
can help you to build models of optical devices when diffraction
is essential. Toolbox consists of a set of filters. Each filter
represent an optical element or a step in a free-space light beam
propagation. There are apertures, intensity filters,
beam-splitters, lenses and models of free space diffraction in
LightPipes. WWW http://guernsey.et.tudelft.nl/pipes/
PCCTS is the Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set and is a set
of software tools designed to facilitate the construction of
compilers and other translation systems. PCCTS consists of two
tools, ANTLR (Another Tool for Language Recognition) and DLG
(DFA-based Lexical analyzer Generator), assorted support files,
sample Pascal and C grammars, and full source code. WWW
http://tempest.ecn.purdue.edu:8001/PCCTS/index.html
The Linux Software Review (LSR). A forum to discuss the various
software programs and packages that are available for Linux. Its
main purpose is to save you valuable time downloading, compiling
and testing programs that you are not going to use after all.
You can read the comments of others, add comments to programs
that are beeing discussed or add a new program or category to the
discussion. WWW http://karlsberg.usask.ca/~slg/lsr/lsr.html
Linux software for scientists by S. Baum. WWW
http://hydra.tamu.edu/~baum/linuxlist.html
Astronomical Software on Linux. WWW
http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro/
Linux and Chemistry. Links to chemistry software on Linux. WWW
http://chpc06.ch.unito.it/chem_linux.html
Chemistry Software for Linux/UNIX. WWW
http://nmr400a.mols.susx.ac.uk/~steven/linux.html
Biocomputing and Linux. WWW
http://alt-www.uia.ac.be/u/pvosta/pcrbioc.html
Programs & Scripts For Information Retrieval and Corpus
Linguistics. WWW http://pi0959.kub.nl:2080/Publiek
High Energy Physics and PC's. WWW
http://hepwww.ph.qmw.ac.uk/HEPpc/
Linux in High-Performance Computing. WWW
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/mdw/hpc/hpc.html
Linux Fortran Information Page. WWW
http://marie.mit.edu/~templon/fortran.html
Linux AI & Alife mini-HOWTO . WWW
http://www.ai.uga.edu/students/jae/ai.html
OTHER LINKS
Scientific Web WWW
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~stst/sciencee.html
Scientific Resources WWW
http://www.birkhauser.com/curious/resource.html
Scientific Data Format Information FAQ WWW
http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/traffic/scidataformats/faq.html
Mathematics Information Servers WWW
http://www.math.psu.edu/OtherMath.html
Some Mathematics Resources WWW
http://www.ama.caltech.edu/resources.html
Eric's Treasure Trove of Mathematics WWW
http://www.planetary.caltech.edu/~eww/math/math.html
Mathematics Virtual Library WWW
http://euclid.math.fsu.edu/Science/math.html
Sci-Math FAQ WWW
http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/math-faq.html
Statistics and Computing WWW
http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~rmtucker/statcomp.html
Objective-Oriented Numerics Page WWW
http://monet.uwaterloo.ca/blitz/oon.html
Parallel Programming with C++ WWW
http://www.kfa-juelich.de/zam/PT/PTc/SProgLangc/cplusplus_para.html
Amara's Wavelet Page WWW
http://www.amara.com/current/wavelet.html
Optimization Software WWW
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/otc/Guide/SoftwareGuide/index.html
Catalog of Algorithms for Approximation WWW
http://netlib2.cs.utk.edu/a/catalog.html
Computer Graphics and Visualization WWW
http://www.dataspace.com/WWW/vlib/comp-graphics.html
3D Engines List WWW http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ki/engines.html
Software for Graphics and Data Analysis WWW
http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/ocean_graphics.html
Graphics viewers, editors, utilities and info WWW
http://www2.ncsu.edu/bae/people/faculty/walker/hotlist/graphics.html
Computer Graphics WWW http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/cg.html
Scientific Visualization Sites WWW
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/Visualization/visWeblets.html
Internet Parallel Computing Archive WWW
http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/
Artificial Life Software WWW
http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/software/
SINCRIS software list (Software for Crystallolgraphy). WWW
http://www.lmcp.jussieu.fr/sincris/logiciel/
Biological Software WWW
http://www.gdb.org/Dan/softsearch/biol-links.html
X-related programs:
ftp ftp.x.org /contrib
GNU-related programs: ftp prep.ai.mit.edu /pub/gnu
http://www.ns.utk.edu/gnu/gnu.html
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