What is SciDAVis?
SciDAVis is a free application for Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization.
License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
A copy of this license is provided in the file gpl.txt.
Platforms
SciDAVis runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X;
possibly also on other platforms like *BSD.
Version numbers
Full SciDAVis releases have a major and minor number. Within a major number, the software should support backwards compatibility of data files and scripting APIs.
Releases with 3 numbers are beta releases, and/or release candidates. These will have the same major/minor number as the full release they were based on. The only exception is a X.0.Y release, as there is no X.0 full release. An X.0.Y release is a beta release prior to the first full release of major version X.
Installation
See INSTALL.md.
Also consider using a prebuilt package, available for PC and Mac or Linux.
User Manual
Web site
http://scidavis.sourceforge.net
Credits
Developers
The following people have written parts of the SciDAVis source code, ranging from a few lines to large chunks. In alphabetical order.
Tilman Benkert[1], Knut Franke, Miquel Garriga, Arun Narayanankutty, Russell Standish,
Documentation
The following people have written parts of the manual and/or other documentation. In alphabetical order :
Knut Franke, Roger Gadiou
Translations
The following people have contributed translations or parts thereof. In alphabetical order.
- Tilman Benkert[1],
- Markus Bongard,
- Tobias Burnus,
- Rémy Claverie,
- f0ma,
- Jose Antonio Lorenzo Fernandez,
- Pavel Fric,
- Jan Helebrant,
- Daniel Klaer,
- Peter Landgren,
- Fellype do Nascimento,
- Tomomasa Ohkubo,
- Mikhail Shevyakov,
- Mauricio Troviano
Packagers
The following people have made installing SciDAVis easier by providing specialized binary packages. In alphabetical order.
- Burkhard Bunk (Debian),
- Quentin Denis (SUSE),
- Yu-Hung Lien (Mac OS X),
- Eric Tanguy (Fedora),
- Mauricio Troviano (Windows installer)
QtiPlot
SciDAVis uses code from QtiPlot, which consisted (at the time of the fork, i.e. QtiPlot 0.9-rc2) of code by the following people:
- Tilman Benkert[1],
- Shen Chen,
- Borries Demeler,
- José Antonio Lorenzo Fernández,
- Knut Franke,
- Vasileios Gkanis,
- Gudjon Gudjonsson,
- Alex Kargovsky,
- Michael Mac-Vicar,
- Tomomasa Ohkubo,
- Aaron Van Tassle,
- Branimir Vasilic,
- Ion Vasilief,
- Vincent Wagelaar
The SciDAVis manual is based on the QtiPlot manual, written by (in alphabetical order):
Knut Franke, Roger Gadiou, Ion Vasilief
footnotes: [1] birth name: Tilman Hoener zu Siederdissen
Special Thanks
We also want to acknowledge the people having helped us indirectly by contributing to the following fine pieces of software. In no particular order.
- Qt (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/credits.html),
- Qwt (http://qwt.sourceforge.net/#credits),
- Qwtplot3D (http://qwtplot3d.sourceforge.net/),
- muParser (http://muparser.sourceforge.net/),
- Python (http://www.python.org/),
- liborigin (http://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/),
- Vim (http://www.vim.org/thanks.php/),
- webgen (http://webgen.rubyforge.org/),
- Doxygen (http://www.doxygen.org/),
- Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/),
- GSL (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/)
... and many more we just forgot to mention.