On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Kent A. Reed <kentallanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/4/2012 9:16 AM, Kenneth Lerman wrote: >> We cared about details like this 45 years ago when plots were done on a >> Calcomp plotter. It's not rocket science. (Actually, I was working at >> Grumman on the Lunar Module at the time -- maybe it was rocket science.) > > Well, in those days, we were dealing with the same issues in the various > research institutes at the University of Chicago, so it wasn't "just" > rocket science.
Yup, and in the early eighties the first computer routine I ever wrote was humanscale(), transforming an arbitrary interval to a superset bounded by the 1,2,5,10 progression, with eye-pleasing inner ticks. That, plus the assembly language Bresenham code for plotting lines on a Hercules graphics card was the core of my own PC plotting program PlotMin. > > I was perplexed in the 1990s when friends started waxing ecstatically > about plotting packages they were using on their PCs. From my > perspective, their packages were atrocious for this very reason. The > Dataplot package that Jim Filliben developed at my then employer, NIST, Dataplot, TopDrawer, PlotMin.... those were the good days. I gave it all for gnuplot, though--I even wrote several hardware drivers for it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
