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                            Igor Pro Demo 
            (Interactive Graphical Operations for Research)
                           WaveMetrics, Inc.
                    WaveMetrics@AppleLink.Apple.com

"Igor is a powerful, integrated graphing and data analysis environment
developed specifically for the Macintosh computer.  It combines the
familiar Macintosh user interface with an efficient command line
interface, allowing you to graph, inspect and analyze your data with
uncommon speed and power.  We developed Igor to be consistent, fast
and flexible and to produce high quality graphic output."

The basic object in Igor is a "wave" which has three components: numerical
data, scaling information, and a name.  The combining of these three
components into a single data type allows for a powerful and versatile
analysis and manipulation of the data.  Waves can be plotted on a 
variety of scales, plotted against one another, and even combined or
transformed into new waves.  

Analysis capabilities include curve-fitting, using everything from lines,
polynomials, sines, exponentials, etc., to user defined
functions, forward and inverse Fourier transforms, smoothing, integration
and differentiation, histogram generation, sorting, as well as some
simple statistics.  

Data can be imported from a variety of sources including some spreadsheet
and drawing applications to I/O through the serial ports.  With the
full working version, graphs can be exported to other programs using either 
the clipboard or PICT files.  Data can be written into "arbitrarily 
formatted text files," allowing them to be imported by other data 
analyzing programs.

A very helpful "Guided Tour of Igor" is included in the "Examples" file.  
This is strongly recommended for new users.  The files that should be
downloaded are the HelpDemo file, the ExamplesDemo file, and the Demo
file which meets the description of your platform.

Tested on a PowerMac 7100 running system 7.5.1.

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Location in Mathematics Archives:
  Anonymous FTP:  /mac/graphingAids

  Gopher:
    (First select "Software" then "Macintosh software arranged
     by subjects")
                  GraphingAids / Igor Pro Demo

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