yGraph

ygraph: Animated, Easy Client for 1D Line Plots

ygraph is a freely available, lightweight and easy to use visualization client for viewing 1D data files. It includes features for animation, zooming and saving to postscript. (Also see the page for xgraph.)

ygraph was developed by Denis Pollney, based on the xgraph package, and much more information is available on the ygraph homepage.

XGraph Image

Using ygraph

ygraph can be used to view one or multiple 1D data files with the format 

"Time=0.0
0.0  0.0
0.2  0.04
0.4  0.16
0.6  0.36
0.8  0.64
1.0  1.0

"Time=1.0
0.0  0.0
0.2 -0.04
0.4 -0.16
0.6 -0.36
0.8 -0.64
1.0 -1.0

Such files can be created with the Cactus thorns CactusBase/IOASCII and CactusBase/IOBasic

Viewing files is as easy as typing 

ygraph <data filename> <data filename>

The are several options for customising aspects of and using ygraph, see the man page or type ygraph --help for more information.

If you are using thorn CactusConnect/HTTPD you can setup your browser to automatically view any advertised ygraph files. Instructions on how to do this are provided in the WebServer-HOWTO.

Getting Hold of ygraph

Binaries and source code for ygraph are all available from the ygraph home page

Support

Please direct questions about ygraph to pollney@aei.mpg.de