Grace (plotting tool)
2D graph plotting software
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::summary 2D graph plotting software ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Grace |
| screenshot | Grace-screenshot.png |
| screenshot size | 250px |
| caption | Preview of Grace-6, showing the Fourier transform dialogue |
| author | Paul Turner (Xmgr) |
| Evgeny Stambulchik (Grace) | |
| developer | Grace Development Team |
| released | 1991 (Xmgr) |
| 1998 (Grace) | |
| latest release version | 5.1.25 |
| latest release date | |
| latest preview version | 5.99.1dev5 |
| latest preview date | |
| programming language | C |
| operating system | Any Unix-like |
| language | English |
| genre | Plotting |
| license | GPL |
| website | |
| :: |
| name = Grace | logo = | screenshot = Grace-screenshot.png | screenshot size = 250px | caption = Preview of Grace-6, showing the Fourier transform dialogue | collapsible = | author = Paul Turner (Xmgr) Evgeny Stambulchik (Grace) | developer = Grace Development Team | released = 1991 (Xmgr) 1998 (Grace) | discontinued = | latest release version = 5.1.25 | latest release date = | latest preview version = 5.99.1dev5 | latest preview date = | programming language = C | operating system = Any Unix-like | platform = | size = | language = English | genre = Plotting | license = GPL | website = Grace is a free WYSIWYG 2D graph plotting tool, for Unix-like operating systems. The package name stands for "GRaphing, Advanced Computation and Exploration of data." Grace uses the X Window System and Motif for its GUI. It has been ported to VMS, OS/2, and Windows 9*/NT/2000/XP (on Cygwin). In 1996, Linux Journal described Xmgr (an early name for Grace) as one of the two most prominent graphing packages for Linux. | title = Graphing with Gnuplot and Xmgr | url = https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1218 | last = Vaught | first = Andy | date = 1996-08-01 | accessdate = 2009-06-19 | magazine = Linux Journal
History
Grace is a descendant of the ACE/gr plotting tool (also known as Xvgr), based on Xview libraries from OpenWindows. | last = Stambulchik | first = Evgeny | date = 1998–2000 | accessdate = 2009-06-20 | title = Grace | url = http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ | last = Stambulchik | first = Evgeny | year = 1997 | accessdate = 2009-06-20 | title = Xmgr | url = http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Xmgr | author = Paul J Turner and ACE/gr development team | date = 1998-05-13 | accessdate = 2009-06-20 | title = Xmgr: List of changes | url = https://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Xmgr/doc/CHANGES.html | author = ACE/gr development team | date = 1998-05-10 | accessdate = 2009-06-20 | title = Xmgr user guide: introduction | url = https://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Xmgr/doc/intro.html#copyright | author = Grace development team | date = 2008-09-20 | url = https://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/doc/UsersGuide.html#ss1.1 | title = Grace user guide: "What is Grace?" | accessdate = 2009-06-20 | author = Grace development team | date = 2008-05-21 | url = https://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/COPYRIGHT.html | title = Grace copyright notice | accessdate = 2009-06-20 | author = Grace development team | date = 2006-05-08 | url = https://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/devel/roadmap-6.html | accessdate = 2009-06-20 | title = Grace-6 Roadmap
Currently maintained versions
Noteworthy alternate versions of Grace include GraceGTK, forked from Grace 5.1.22 in 2009 by Patrick Vincent, | author = GraceGTK development team | publisher=SourceForge | date = 2018-05-25 | url = https://sourceforge.net/p/gracegtk/home/gracegtk/ | title = GraceGTK | accessdate = 2018-07-02 Both of these versions of Grace work natively on Windows operating systems and had releases in 2022.
Features
Grace can be used from a point-and-click interface or scripted (using either the built-in programming language or a number of language bindings). It performs both linear and nonlinear least-squares fitting to arbitrarily complex user-defined functions, with or without constraints. Other analysis tools include FFT, integration and differentiation, splines, interpolation, and smoothing.
Programs using Grace
References
References
- "QtGrace".
- "Grace at NERSC". NERSC.
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