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Re: 16-bit colors in Linux [message #13665 is a reply to message #13547] Fri, 20 November 1998 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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In article <7316c4$n6r$1@news.kjist.ac.kr>,
"G. Hugh SONG" <ghsong@\"Spamspoiler\"kjist.ac.kr> writes:
>
> BTW, using IDL /pv~Wave for scientific plotting works does not make
> much sense. But, I want full programmability. I don't need image
> manipulation. Is there any share-ware thing close to IDL/PV~Wave for
> this purpose? I have been thinking of getting out of the commercial
> program. Gnuplot cannot do 3-D(such as a sphere) as well as
> IDL/PV-wave. Can SCILAB do such a thing? If it does I am
> going to switch to SCILAB.
>

You might try yorick - it's an interpreted language,
and in some ways is quite like IDL. For example, the
following commands are valid yorick commands:

x = indgen(10)
print, x

There are significant differences too, though. For
example, yorick arrays are 1 indexed, like fortran :-(


ftp://icf.llnl.gov/pub/Yorick/yorick-ad.html



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