SmileLab Full Edition 3.4.2

Its plotting interface makes easier to plot data by importing files, specifying intermediate computations and access display settings, all in the same interface.

You can also work by writing scripts which perform the data processing tasks and which make the data visualization graphs. Such scripts can be integrated to a custom interface or to an automatized workflow.

Major Functions:

• Extract data from files (default data formats supported: text, binary, FITS, XNF, ...),
• perform data processing using commands provided with Smile or controlling external code (more info),
• Visualize your data in the most usual forms (curves, scatter plots, bar graphs, contour lines, color maps and vector fields in 2D, and 3D surfaces)
• Customize the interaction of the user with the plots (handling mouse clicks, contextual menus, keyboard events...) and create custom interfaces,
• Export your plot as a PDF file, as a bitmap picture (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PSD) or as a QuickTime movie.

Major Features:

1. 1-d data visualization
   • Curves
   • Scatter plots
   • Bar graphs
   • Support of multiple curves in one plot
   • Polynomial fits
   • Data supported
2. 2-d data visualization
   • Color maps
   • Contour lines
   • Vector plots
   • Bitmaps
   • Support of superimposed graphs
3. 3-d data visualization
   • Surfaces
   • Isosurfaces (scalar 3-d data)
   • Streamlines (vectorial 3-d data)
   • 2-d slices (scalar 3-d data)
   • Curves
   • Triangles lists
   • Cones
   • Cylinders
   • Spheres
   • Cubes
   • Support of multiple objects in a plot
   • Data supported by the surfaces
   • Light position and eye position adjustable
   • Parameters of the plane projection adjustable
   • Advanced surface rendering with separate specular, emitted, ambient, and diffused colors, and shininess. Wireframe or plain.
4. Customization of the graphs
   • Levels of settings customization:
   • PDF engine, a vectorial graphical library (drawing and text)
   • PDF import
   • LaTeX formulae
   • Support of Unicode in the figures
5. Graphic's programmable user interface
   • Click and drag
   • User's keystrokes can he handled in a script
   • User's window resize can he handled in a script
   • Programmable widgets
   • Customizable toolbar: buttons, menus, messages
6. Data files format supported
   • ASCII
   • Binary
   • FITS
   • Bitmap images (JPEG, PNG etc.) as gray levels
   • XNF (XML-based extensible 1-d, 2-d, and 3-d binary arrays storage)
7. Graphic formats produced
   • PDF (vectorial)
   • JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PSD
   • QuickTime movie
   • MacOS bundle: stores the PDF graphic, the numerical data, and all settings
   • Export of a matrix into a gray-level or indexed colors image, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PSD
8. Communication with external codes
   • Standard UNIX executables: via "do shell script" (invokes /bin/sh)
   • Scriptable programs: via the AppleScript terminology
   • C, C++ and FORTRAN programs: interactive communication with running codes by installation of inter-application communication (working samples are provided)
9. Communication over IP
   • Communication between Smile applications, synchronously or asynchronously
   • Serving cgi and xml-rpc requests
10. Mathematical functions on numbers, arrays, and matrices, real and complex
    • Arithmetic and comparison operators: + - * / ^ < <= = /= >= >
    • trigonometric and hyperbolic: cos, sin, ... acos, asin, ... cosh, sinh, ... acosh, asinh, ... atan2
    • transcendental: ln, log10, exp, sqrt, erf, erfc, gamma, lgamma
    • miscellaneous: abs, sqr, hypot, round, ceil, floor, trunc, roots of
    • linear algebra: transposition, product (M x M, M x v, v x M, ), inverse matrix and solution of a linear system, eigenvalues, LU decomposition, pivot, determinant
    • Fourier Transform and convolution: 1d FFT, grouped n-dimensional FFT, 2d FFT (all sizes), convolution, cross-correlation, filtering. Support periodic boundary conditions.
    • interpolation: linear or spline, supports periodic boundary conditions.
    • polynomials: evaluation, composition, addition, subtraction, product, Euclidean quotient, and translation into string. Polynomial data fits.
    • image processing: particle analysis (statistics and shapes).
11. XML editor and XML engine
    • XML syntax checking
    • check of the conformance to the DTD
    • DTD syntax checking
    • XML DOM (Document Object Model): textual node, children, siblings, parent, root, document, URL. Node creation and deletion. Support of versions 1.0 and 1.1 of XML.
    • XPATH, XPATH generation
    • XSLT
    • p-list engine (Property Lists is a fast lookup tables format)
12. User interface editor
    • Drag-and-drop editor
    • Instant toggle between running mode and edition mode
13. PDF engine
    • Shapes: straight and smooth lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, Bézier curves, crosses, arrows, text, text box, smooth closed curves
    • Graphic features: colors, masks, transparency, dashes, line joints, line endings, fonts and text sizes, linear transformations, objects' naming, HSV/CMYK/RGB translations, shadows, random patterns, graded colors, layers, paths library, objects library, bitmap import, PDF import
    • Geometry: scalar product, determinant, norm, middle, circle containing three points, intersection, projection, symmetry, bisector, center of mass,
    • Import and scale PDF,
    • Output formats: PDF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PSD, and QuickTime movie (.mov).
14. Regular Expressions search-and-replace engine
    • ASCII and Unicode
    • Work on a variable, on an open window, or on a file
15. Text editor
    • ASCII (Mac-Roman, ISO-8859-1) and Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16)
    • Unlimited file size
    • Regular Expressions search-and-replace