Software Guide

PV-Wave

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Getting Started

Manual Blurb

The PV-Wave Command Language allows you to quickly produce graphics of your data by entering commands or using simple scripts. The scripts are shorter and simpler than equivalent plotting calls would be in C or Fortran. PV-Wave supports a wide range of 1-, 2-, and 3-D plotting including a rich set of annotations, axis capabilities and numbering, and plot types. It also handles time series of data and simple animation of plots, image processing, multivariate data analysis, contours and surfaces, signal processing, and numerical computation. For the latter it contains a set of general mathematical functions for pre- and post-processing. PV-Wave can be considered an enriched version of IDL since both have the same origin. It is also the next-generation follow-on to batch plotting packages such as DI-3000. PV-Wave manuals can be found on the SciVis Lab bookshelf.

PV-Wave provides an interactive command language interpreter that runs on the SGIs. Type wave at the prompt to enter the interpreter. PV-Wave procedures and functions are also callable directly from C or FORTRAN programs, and can be written in any text editor.

Help

Documentation

• Online Seminar Notes
• PostScript Seminar Notes

Mail general questions to help@gvu.gatech.edu