ngspice/xgraph/README.NEWFEATURES

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This code is essentially XGraph release 11.4, with some modifications
which were made for use by the NCSA Relativity group.
These modifications were made by Paul Walker, and he should be
contacted at the below address if you have any problems/questions
regarding these features.
1. Animation. XGraph will now do a *very* crude animation of
your data sets. It occasionally has problems with refreshes
and will consequently run your animation three of four times.
Consider this an undocumented feature! You can adjust the
speed of the animation with the -dl option. I find "2" works
well on a sparc displaying on MacX, "5" on a sparc on its
own display, and "10" on an SGI or RS6K on its own display.
Remeber, this animation is not being advertised as anything
other than very crude, so if you are looking for production
quality video, turn elsewhere. We find it useful as it will
quickly generate animation which shows time evolution.
2. Differentation. You can press the "Derivative" button to
see the first and second derivatives of your data set. The
method is a standard centered difference. You cannot display
higher than second derivatives. Animation, zooming, etc...
work in each of the derivative windows. Endpoints are found
linearly interpolating inner values to ends, so pay them
little heed!
3. New Color Map. We couldn't differentiate the colors once we
got past yellow, so we created a new color map. If you don't
like it, look in init.c for the variable "defColors" and
comment out the new one, replacing it with the commented
old one. Of course, you are free to insert your own choices
here also ... Just use standard X color names.
These modifications were made by Paul Walker, and distributed with the
Original author's consent. See Copyright.h for information about
distribution and ownership of these changes. Contact Paul Walker at
Paul Walker
NCSA
605 E. Springfield Ave
Champaign IL 61820
pwalker@ncsa.uiuc.edu