Dislin

DISLIN is a at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (formerly MPI for Aeronomy ) developed graphics library for presentation of scientific data in the form of curves, spatial and colored surfaces, bar and pie charts, contours and maps. The author of DISLIN, Helmut Michels is employed as a mathematics graduate and Unix system manager in the computer center of the Institute.

DISLIN provides for various operating systems and compilers plot libraries for the programming languages ​​C, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90/95 ready. In addition, expansion modules are available for interpreted languages ​​Perl, Python and Java. As output formats DISLIN supports X11, VGA, PostScript, PDF, CGM, WMF, SVG, HPGL, PNG, BMP, PPM, GIF and TIFF.

The DISLIN software is freely usable for non-commercial applications. The current version 10.4 has been released in January 2014, while the first version 1.0 was published in December 1986.