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Hi!

I need some advice on choosing between Matlab and C++ to do a graphics
programming task on a 486 PC.

I am about to begin working on a project where I will be needing some
graphics to analyze a set of data.  I would of course like quick results
(i.e. all development done by 3 experienced people in a month) and a  
flexable graphics system.

I will have an array of data with several columns of different data items.
The rows contain the data for different points in time.

I will be needing several windows showing the data manipulated in various
ways and changing over time.  In other words, the graph data will be
animated.

The possibilities for graphs I might need include
animated 3d trajectories, 3d line graphs, polar plots, and normal line graphs.
In addition, I would like to be able to speed up and slow down the animations.
This will require getting keyboard input asyncronously.  The positioning of
the graphics windows with graphs should be fairly flexable at the codeing
level but don't have to be moved during the running of the animation, 
although that would be nice.

I have programming experience in both Matlab 3.5 and C++.  I was wondering
whether I should use C++ or Matlab.  I am considering this question over
reports that Matlab 4.0 for the PC with lots of nice features may be coming
out in mid February.  I will be evaluating a copy of Matlab 4.0 on a Sun
in a few days.  Any significant differences between this version and the
upcomming PC version I should know about?

Any comments and recomendations would be appreciated.

- Thanks All,
Jason Collins
jcollins@cmdl.gatech.edu