Grace (plotting tool)

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Grace
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Preview of Grace-6, showing the Fourier transform dialogue
Original author(s) Paul Turner (Xmgr)
Evgeny Stambulchik (Grace)
Developer(s) Grace Development Team
Initial release1991 (Xmgr)
1998 (Grace)
Stable release
5.1.25 / 14 February 2015;7 years ago (2015-02-14)
Preview release
5.99.1dev5 / 7 May 2007;14 years ago (2007-05-07)
Written in C
Operating system Any Unix-like
Available in English
Type Plotting
License GPL
Website plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/

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. [1]

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History

Grace is a descendant of the ACE/gr plotting tool (also known as Xvgr), based on Xview libraries from OpenWindows. [2] Xvgr was originally written by Paul Turner of Portland, Oregon, [3] who continued development until version 4.00. [4] In 1996, development was taken over by the ACE/gr development team, led by Evgeny Stambulchik at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. [5] [6] Development of Xmgr was frozen at version 4.1.2 in 1998 [3] and the Grace project was started as a fork, released under the GPL. [7] The name stands for "GRaphing, Advanced Computation and Exploration of data" or "Grace Revamps ACE/gr" [6] Turner still maintains a non-public version of Xmgr for internal use. [6] The first version of Grace was numbered 5.0.0 and the latest stable version, 5.1.25 (released February 2015). [2] Whether the development of the next major release 6.0.0 is still in progress is unclear. The latest preview versions numbered 5.99.* were released in 2007. [8]

Currently maintained versions

Noteworthy alternate versions of Grace include GraceGTK, forked from Grace 5.1.22 in 2009 by Patrick Vincent, [9] and QtGrace, released in 2011 by Andreas Winter. [10] Both of these versions of Grace work natively on Windows operating systems and had releases in 2017.

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. [11]

Programs using Grace

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References

  1. ↑ Vaught, Andy (1 August 1996), "Graphing with Gnuplot and Xmgr", Linux Journal , retrieved 19 June 2009
  2. 1 2 Stambulchik, Evgeny (1998–2000), Grace , retrieved 20 June 2009
  3. 1 2 Stambulchik, Evgeny (1997), Xmgr , retrieved 20 June 2009
  4. ↑ Paul J Turner and ACE/gr development team (13 May 1998), Xmgr: List of changes , retrieved 20 June 2009
  5. ↑ ACE/gr development team (10 May 1998), Xmgr user guide: introduction , retrieved 20 June 2009
  6. 1 2 3 Grace development team (20 September 2008), Grace user guide: "What is Grace?" , retrieved 20 June 2009
  7. ↑ Grace development team (8 May 2006), Grace-6 Roadmap , retrieved 20 June 2009
  8. ↑ GraceGTK development team (25 May 2018), GraceGTK, SourceForge , retrieved 2 July 2018
  9. ↑ Winter, Andreas. "QtGrace" . Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  10. ↑ "Grace at NERSC". NERSC. Archived from the original on 24 February 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
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