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

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.