Hi there. I need suggestions on a program that can take in raw data and produce graphs of all sorts and also produce graph animations of time dependent data, like from a 1D, 2D or 3D physical simulation. The ability to export these animations as an AVI is important to me. If I can find a program I will post it here too.
More specifically I mean raw numerical data. The source of the data is really irrelevant.
So if anyone knows a program that can do what I want I would appreciate it if you could post the name here. Otherwise I'll just scavenge through one of my previous OpenGL programs and make my own little graphing program. I want to avoid that if I can because I would rather attack the objective than get sidetracked on making a graphing program.
I think Matlab would be you're looking for.
It’s a numerical modeling and simulation tool which would do all the above. However its not free. Some friends of mine have a free Linux software (I don’t know the name) that works somewhat like Matlab. But I don’t think it has all the features like Matlab.
gnuplot also can create images from data files. The images may then be inserted into an avi or animated gif - could use gif construction set for example.
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