NCAR

Description

NCAR Graphics is a Fortran- and C-based software package for scientific visualization. It is comprised of the following:

  • A library containing more than two dozen Fortran/C utilities for drawing contours, maps, vectors, streamlines, weather maps, surfaces, histograms, X/Y plots, annotations, and more
  • An American National Standards Institute/International Standards Organization standard version of the graphical kernel system (GKS), with both C and Fortran callable entries
  • A math library containing a collection of C and Fortran interpolators and approximators for one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional data
  • Applications for displaying, editing, and manipulating graphical output
  • Map databases
  • Hundreds of Fortran and C example
  • Demo programs
  • Compilation scripts

For more information, see the NCAR Graphics home page.

Use

Phoenix
On Phoenix, ncarg is set up as a module. See the modules page for more information on modules.