Re: [Sheflug] Evolution, Ximian in general...

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

You may want to try scilab. It has a graphical interface much reminiscient of
MATLAB for windows, as well as some very funky graphing stuff (3d animated
pushbike, anyone?)

I haven't found anything Octave won't do that MATLAB will. Well, that I want,
anyway, and of course not taking SimuLink into account.

Although I'm not sure about polar graphing, I'm sure that the Octave/GNUplot
combo can cope admirably well with log scales on one or both axes of a normal,
2 or 3 dimensional rectangular graph.

Check the docs thoroughly. I printed the manual to Octave (yes, really), and
still refer to it on regular occasions. Similarly, the help built into GNUplot
(run it at the command line and type 'help') is nothing short of superb. Give
it a shot.

Best of luck,

Craig

On 03-Apr-01 Will Newton wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 simon [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 
>> Is there anyone else out there that has found that Octave Gnuplot and
>> all the other engineering tools just aren't quite up to the job?
> 
> I found Octave could do everything MATLAB could (although I must admit
> that I didn't use anything esoteric). MATLAB is available for Linux if you
> are willing to pay for it, and seems like the industry standard in this
> area. Are you sure you haven't missed something in the docs? ISTR the
> MATLAB v. Octave differences page wasn't particularly long.
> 
> 
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