Description
(Short description)
This book describes the data plotting library DISLIN written in the programming languages Fortran and C. The library contains subroutines and functions fordisplaying data graphically as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3-D colour plots, surfaces, contours and maps.
DISLIN is intended to be a powerful and easy to use software package for programmers and scientists that does not require knowledge of hardware features of plotting devices. The routines in the library can be called from the programming languages Fortran, C, Perl, Python, Java and Ch.
(Author portrait)
Helmut Michels studied mathematics at the University of Göttingen and currently works as a mathematician and Unix system manager at the computer center of the MPS in Lindau. He developed DISLIN at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau in Germany.
