Grace (plotting tool)
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| Grace | |
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 Grace, showing the Fourier transform dialogue |
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| Developed by | Grace Development Team |
| Latest release | 5.1.22 / May 22, 2008 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Plotting |
| License | GPL |
| Website | http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ |
Grace stands for "GRaphing, Advanced Computation and Exploration of data." It is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and Motif. Grace runs on practically any version of Unix-like operating system. It has also been successfully ported to VMS, OS/2, and Windows 9*/NT/2000/XP (on Cygwin).
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[edit] History
Grace is a descendant of Paul Turner's ACE/gr (Grace is also said to stand for "Grace Revamps ACE/gr"), otherwise known as Xmgr. Xmgr was forked as Grace by the Grace development team, led by Evgeny Stambulchik. They released Grace under the GPL. Paul Turner still maintains a closed version of the original Xmgr.
[edit] Features
Grace creates publication-quality output. It can be used from a point-and-click interface or scripted (either from the built-in programming language or through 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. It is very powerful and at the same time very user friendly.
[edit] Programs using Grace
- GNU Octave can optionally use grace
- GROMACS
- MOLPRO
- NAMD
- Visual Molecular Dynamics
