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Dr. Scott Best, of
SiberSci RF engineering services, sent information
about the FREE general purpose DISLIN scientific
and engineering plotting software library that includes Smith Chart support. The
graphics library was initially created at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System
Research beginning in 1985 by Mr. Helmut Michels. Its continual series of upgrades
is as recent as May 2020. The DISLIN library is available for Unix, Linux, FreeBSD,
Windows, Mac OSX, and MS-DOS systems. It supports a variety of public domain and
commercial compilers for Go, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, TCL, Julia, FreeBASIC, Free
Pascal, R, C/C++, and Fortran (77, 90, and 95).
If you are a software developer, you probably know that most development platforms
are supplied with either no plotting components or very rudimentary versions of
for-purchase products. Many cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. While there
is hesitation to incorporate open source (i.e., free) software into commercial products,
DISLIN's 35 year history of successful users is de facto validation of its integrity.
You might want to give it a look.
From the DISLIN Overview web
page:
"DISLIN is a high level library of subroutines and functions that display data
graphically. It is intended to be a powerful and easy to use software package for
programmers and scientists that does not require knowledge of hardware features.
The software is available for the programming languages C/C++, Fortran 77 and Fortran
90/95. For some operating systems, the languages Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Tcl,
Julia, R, FreeBASIC, Free Pascal and the C/C++ interpreter Ch are also supported.
DISLIN can display graphic information directly on graphic terminals or store
them in metafiles. The supported display types are VGA, X Windows, Windows API and
OpenGL. The supported file formats are GKSLIN, CGM, HPGL, PostScript, PDF, WMF,
SVG, PNG, BMP, PPM, GIF and TIFF. DISLIN metafiles can either be printed on various
devices using the DISLIN driver program DISDRV or imported into third party products
such as TeX and MS Word.
The library contains the following features:
9 software fonts where each font provides 6 alphabets. PostScript fonts for PostScript,
PDF and SVG output, X11 fonts for X terminals and TrueType fonts for Windows displays
and WMF files can also be used. The different aphabets contain Roman, Greek, Russian,
mathematical and special European characters. TeX instructions can be used for plotting
mathematical formulas. Plotting of two- and three-dimensional axis systems. Axes
can be linearly or logarithmically scaled and labeled with linear, logarithmic,
time, date, map and user-defined formats. Plotting of curves. Several curves can
appear in one axis system and can be differentiated by colour, line style and pattern.
Multiple axis system can be displayed on a page. Plotting of legends. Elementary
plot routines for lines, vectors and outlined or filled regions such as rectangles,
circles, arcs, ellipses and polygons. Shielded regions can be defined. Business
graphics. 3-D colour graphics. 3-D graphics. Elementary image routines. Geographical
projections and plotting of maps. Contouring. Graphical user interface (GUI) routines
based on Motif and Windows API functions.
Manuals in English are available
in the online help of DISLIN, or can be downloaded in HTML format.
A printed book of DISLIN can be ordered from the publisher, or directly from
the author.
DSLIN General-Purpose Scientific and Engineering Plotting Library that Includes
Smith Charts
About DISLIN
In July 1985 I [Helmut Michels] changed my job from a small institute at the
University of Göttingen to the computer center of the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy
in Katlenburg-Lindau which is renamed to Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
in July 2004. One of my first tasks at the institute in Lindau was the creating
of 3-D colour plots from data of the experiment PICCA on the probe GIOTTO. I ported
a collection of plotting routines written by me at the university to a Perkin Elmer
machine with a Ramtek colour graphics system and released it as DISLIN 1.0. The
name DISLIN is an abbreviation for Device-Independent Software Lindau. Here is a
short summary of all DISLIN releases.
Contact Info
Helmut Michels Dislin Software Am Hachweg 10 37083 Göttingen, Germany
Phone: +49 551 29348389 E-Mail:
michels@dislin.de
Web: www.dislin.de
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Engineering Services that are customized to satisfy their individual technical requirements
and time constraints. To determine if SiberSci, LLC can be of assistance to your
company, please provide Dr. Scott Best with a detailed description of the work to
be performed along with a schedule, and SiberSci, LLC will provide a budgetary quotation
for the services that are required to fulfill the stated technical requirements.
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to ensure their information is protected and not compromised.
Contact Info
Dr. Scott Best SiberSci, LLC Lake Forest Drive Owensboro, KY
42303 Phone: 1-270-228-4901 E-E-Mail:
scott_best@sibersci.com Web: sibersci.com
Posted June 1, 2020
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