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Article #1536

Re: Graphing Programs

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From: James A. Rose
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:04
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In article <1992Apr10.170358.20305@nuscc.nus.sg> phygansl@nuscc.nus.sg (Gan Seum-Lim (Mr)) writes:
>I have also heard of WingZ. Can WingZ do 3-D graphing ?

Yes, WingZ and its cousin Claris Resolve both do 3-D graphing.  I
bought Claris Resolve because I wanted to do some graphing now, and
later wanted the power of a spreadsheet.  It turns out I am already
using the spreadsheet capabilities a lot to assist in the graphing.  
One reason I chose Resolve is that it can do arbitrary Log bases on the
axes (i.e. one axis can be log base 2 and the other log base 10).  I
like the looks of the wire frame/countour plots, but am not sure if 
I will make much use of them.

My only regret at this time is that there seems to be a bug in exporting
the charts to other programs.  If all xy lines in a plot are set to 
a width of 1 they are transfered as 'hairline' width.  If I set one of
the lines in the plot to width 2 then the others show up correctly (well
almost, the line in the legend is still 'hairline' width).  Has
anyone else encountered this problem?  

It is nice to able to publish and subscribe to the charts, especially 
when the data is constantly being updated/modified (saves a lot of cut
and pastes).

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| Jim Rose               | Class of '92 ?                            |
| ECE Graduate Student   | PhD student looking for job opportunities |
| jar@boole.ece.wisc.edu | in Computer Architecture & Engineering.   |
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Date: 10 Apr 92 15:04:34 CDT
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Summary: Yes, WingZ and its cousin Claris Resolve do 3-d Graphs 
Keywords: graphing, spreadsheets 
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