Subject: looking for graphics software

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 10:12:21 +0100 (MEZ)

Dear CCL readers,

our group of ab initio quantum chemists is looking for a suitable
graphics software that fits our particular needs: We want
- good 2D contour plots (including a really working labeling mechanism
  for contour lines),
- 3D renderings of potential energy surfaces (perspective, hidden line, etc.,
  but no fancy stuff),
- perhaps also 3D isosurfaces, but this is not a must,
- simple ball-and-stick plots of molecules and clusters (or the possibility
  to create these by a few simple steps),
- of course simple x,y-graphs etc.,
- publication-quality laser printer output (postscript)
All this should be realized as a subroutine library directly callable from
our own Fortran programs. And it need not be public domain; we are actually
willing to pay for it.
We do NOT need/want (and hence do not want to pay for):
- a black-box system,
- an elaborate graphical user interface,
- complicated, high-power graphics tools like photographic or video image
  processing, etc.
For example, to name a few real-life products, a full-blown AVS or IDL
package simply contains too many beautiful features we will never use;
something like CA-DISSPLA would be more in our line; while GNUPLOT has
a few shortcomings.
We would like the graphics to run on HP735, Sun SPARC, and possibly Silicon
Graphics machines.

Any recommendations, hints, and your own positive or negative experiences
are highly welcome!

Bernd Hartke

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