DISLIN

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Developer:	Helmut Michels
Latest release:	9.1 / November, 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Plotting Library
License:	Free for non-commercial use
Website:	www.dislin.de

DISLIN is a high-level and easy to use plotting library developed by Helmut Michels at the Max Planck Institute in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany. Helmut Michels is working 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, HPGL, SVG, 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 and Java are also supported for most operating systems. The current version of DISLIN is 9.1, released in November 2006. The first version 1.0 was released in December 1986.

The DISLIN software is free for non-commercial use.