DISLIN
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| Developer(s) | Helmut Michels |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 11.3
/ March 2020 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Plotting library |
| License | Free for non-commercial and commercial use |
| Website | www |
DISLIN is a high-level plotting library developed by Helmut Michels at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany. Helmut Michels currently works as a mathematician and Unix system manager at the computer center of the institute.
The DISLIN library contains routines and functions for displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour plots, surfaces, contours and maps. Several output formats are supported such as X11, VGA, PostScript, PDF, CGM, WMF, SVG, HPGL, PNG, BMP, PPM, GIF and TIFF.
DISLIN is available for the programming languages Fortran 77, Fortran 90/95 and C. Plotting extensions for the languages Perl, Python, Java, Julia, Ruby and Tcl are also supported for most operating systems. The current version of DISLIN is 11.3 released in March 2020. The first version 1.0 was released in December 1986.
Since version 11.3 the DISLIN software is free for non-commercial and commercial use.[1][2]
References
- ^ Michels, Helmut (2017). "License Information". The Data Plotting Software DISLIN, Version 11. Shaker Media. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-3-95631-557-2.
- ^ Helmut Michels (2018). "END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR DISLIN".