NEWPLOT. General-Purpose Scientific Plotting

Technical Report · Thu Mar 05 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:145677

Goldsmith, J E.M. ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (United States)

NEWPLOT provides the means of preparing both quick (for inspection) and publication-quality x-y data plots with a minimum of effort on a variety of plotting devices. The ISSCO proprietary DISSPLA graphics software system is required. NEWPLOT acts as a convenient user front-end to the DISSPLA subroutine package. Default values that are suitable for most plots are supplied for almost all parameters; if the default value is satisfactory, the user need not specify the parameter explicitly. NEWPLOT can produce linear, semi-log, and log-log plots, with multiple data sets, character strings, lines, and vectors plotted in black-and-white or in color. Data points are read in from disk files;plot parameter input can be read in from either a terminal or a parameter disk file, and can be saved as a disk file for subsequent modification and reuse. The data points can be plotted as symbols only, connected curves only, or both. In addition, individual plot symbols and line segments (or arrows) can be specified and labelled with text to exhibit plot legends, etc. NEWPLOT has provision for convenient recovery from error conditions except for those cases when DISSPLA returns the user to the monitor. This release of NEWPLOT is identified as NEWPLOT3 by the author; it can handle a maximum of 20 data sets each containing up to 2000 points, 100 lines, 50 symbols, and 50 strings to be plotted.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DR00789
• OSTI ID: 145677
• Report Number(s): ESTSC--000296D078000; NESC--9732
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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