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johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:

>In article <10435@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, clark@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Clark Liu) writes...
>>If anybody knows any package on the mac capable of drawing contour
>>lines please email me its name.

>Contour 81 is a shareware contour plotting application for the Mac.  
>A practical application example: this type of program is used to
>plot isotherms, equipotential lines, and the like from three column
>data files or numerical results.  This is something the Cricket Graphs
>of the world don't handle.

A very versatile contouring program for the Mac is ContourPlot from 
Australia.  A demo version is available in the sumex archives.  Its particular
strength is the ability to superimpose a new grid on the data and then
offer varous interpolation schemes (nothing else I have seen on the mac
does this). It provides publication quality contour output, with _very_
slick curves, point and click changes to almost anything you can imagine.
It also supports shaded countour maps (colour and greys), but I have not
spent much time on that.  Its usability is much the same as SurfaceII
(I'm sure that is the name) available on some mainframes, with a much 
better interface.  It also provides batch processing capability, which
many people will appreciate.  The latest version I have seen is 1.2.1.

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