Dislin

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Dislin

DISLIN
Basic data

developer Helmut Michels
Current  version 11.3
(March, 2020)
operating system Multi-platform
programming language C , FORTRAN 77, Fortran 90
category Graphics library
License Free for non-commercial and commercial use
www.dislin.de

Dislin is a graphics library developed at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (formerly MPI for Aeronomy) for the display of scientific data in the form of curves, spatial and colored surfaces, bar and pie charts , contours and geographic projections. The author of DISLIN, Helmut Michels is in the data center of the Institute as a graduate mathematician and Unix - System Manager busy.

Dislin provides plot libraries for various operating systems and compilers for the programming languages C , Fortran 77 and Fortran 90/95. In addition, extension modules are offered for the interpreting languages Perl , Python and Java . Dislin supports X11 , VGA , PostScript , PDF , CGM , WMF , SVG , HPGL , PNG , BMP , PPM , GIF and TIFF as output formats .

The Dislin software can be used freely for non-commercial and commercial applications. The current version 11.3 was released in March 2020, while the first version 1.0 was released in December 1986.

Web links

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  1. a b c www.mps.mpg.de . (accessed on May 22, 2017).