Optional NEMO Software

• PGPLOT fortran graphics library, with C callable routines. The yapp_pgplot.c module is based on this. Note that for linux the good archive sites (e.g. on sunsite) have compiled versions of PGPLOT available.
• PLPLOT, a C graphics library, loosely based on PGPLOT. yapp_plplot.c. Unfortunately some names of the yapp(3NEMO) interface are the same as those in plplot. See comments in source code how to solve this.
• CFITSIO, a C based FITSIO library
• SGI's GL graphics library is very popular, and several options exist if you don't have SGI hardware:
  • VOGL graphics library, a mostly GL-compatible library. Although it can be used with yapp_gl.c as the default graphics interface, the xyzview is a standalone graphics application on non-SGI machines that is often used.
    Other links to vogl: (note that a number of different versions of vogl now exist):
    • Clark U (SIP)
    • munnary.oz.au: the official ftp site for vogl
    • Vis5D
    I keep my own current version of vogl in our anon.ftp, and you can also pick that up, but I cannot guarentee it is the most up to date version.
  • Ygl - another GL compatible library, hasn't been tried out yet
  • Mesa - not tried out yet, as of last writing, the claim is that it is not functional enough.
• x3d, a pretty nifty free 3D stereoscopic (if you have the glasses) viewer. snap3dv can also create x3d format files (caveat: version 1.4 works fine, a patch is needed for V2.x)
• I can also recommend installing Tcl/Tk, Tkman and rman, to aid in displaying and parsing manual pages. The standard X windows program xman may be sufficient though.
• HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) is used by hdfgrid, sdsfits, fitssds, snaphdf and tsd. For a number of architectures NCSA has binaries available
• XForms library, many binaries distributions are also available.
• Qt widget library, for which binary distributions are available.
• IDL, yes, you wouldn't believe i would say it, but we do have a NEMO program snapidl that can tabulate a NEMO nbody snapshot for IDL, in binary mode. Use snapprint for an ASCII version.