The most frequented blog entries here are about installing Gnuplot on Ubuntu Linux or Mac OS X. These entries are still valid for the newer Ubuntu versions. But Gnuplot newest version 4.4.0 is close to be released soon, and in this release there are cairo based pdf and png terminals provided. So you don’t need [...]
There are some possibilities to install Gnuplot on Mac OS X, none of them is “official”, since the Gnuplot project doesn’t provide binaries for Mac OS X. It’s actually quite easy to configure and compile Gnuplot (i.e. ./configure; make; make install), but some terminals are not built due to missing dependencies and this makes Gnuplot [...]
“The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers. The library provides a wide range of mathematical routines such as random number generators, special functions and least-squares fitting. There are over 1000 functions in total with an extensive test suite”.
Binaries of the GSL 1.11 were already provided in an earlier post [...]
The binaries for GSL 1.12 are provided in this post: MinGW (3.4.5) binaries of GNU Scientific Library 1.12 for use with MinGW and Visual C++
“The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers. The library provides a wide range of mathematical routines such as random number generators, special functions and [...]
“netCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data”. On its homepage you’ll find a lot of precompiled libraries for Unix derivates but only a binary of netCDF 3.6.1 compiled with Visual C++. It’s possible to use this [...]
In research sometimes you want to make a movie from single images, like plots from experimental data or from calculation to visualize changes or so on. In order to achieve this you can use ffmpeg. First you have to create the images and save them, where the images need to have a continuous number in [...]
I once again updated these instructions for Gnuplot 4.4.0 RC1 and newer Ubuntu versions. Find these instructions in this post.
There is an updated Howto for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon available.
Though there is gnuplot available in the Ubuntu/Debian repositories, there are reasons to compile gnuplot – first and most important gnu readline support! I don’t know [...]
I use the subfig package and when I compiled my thesis in Linux I encountered a problem, when I used the \subref command in the caption of a figure. The compilation was stopped with the error message “Argument of \@tempf has an extra }.”
Scanning the internet I found this forum entry in German where it [...]
The book “Handbook of Mathematical Functions” of Abramowitz and Stegun is a very important book, if someone does any complicated calculations in physics or mathematics.
There is a website were you can view this book online, or even download it. A pdf version is also available for download.
Hmm, there is obviously not any out there. I tried many of them. I actually battled all of them. All suck. Big times. But there is gnuplot. It’s cross plattform, which is not a bad thing if you are working at a research facility. It’s not as easy as other programs, because you need to [...]
