non geoscience application?

[bob at math.umn.edu]

Richard Christofferson allegedly wrote:
> I have a question.
> 
> Would it be possible to represent non-geospatial data
> using grass or nviz?
> I was approached by a student with a table of the
> local star group, who wanted to see if grass could represent
> them (using a greatly exagerrated scale).  
> 
> Any pointers on where to start would be appreciated.

Your student might want to look at IRAF, the standard astronomical
software tool on Unix. 

For basic astronomical plotting, see pgperl and similar at

	http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre/out/pitch.html

IIRC even matlab has some appropriate functionality.

Your recovering astronomer,
Chris
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