EPIC- Software - Web Utilities

EPIC Programs	Database Management	EPIC I/O Library	Matlab MexEPS
Web Utilities	X-Motif Interface	PPLUS Graphic Package	Java

EPIC Web Utilities -- m2gif

What m2gif does
m2gif translates Plot-Plus (PPLUS) metacode files into GIF images, using the gd ("gifdraw") library.

Sample Images
The following are some sample images created by m2gif, or web pages which use m2gif. Of particular interest is the on-the-fly generation of plots for WWW display.

coast.gif (Ob estuary bottom salinity image)
On-the-fly EPIC data plots
TOGA-TAO real-time plots (some on-the-fly, some not)
Some Plot-Plus sample plots
KESSLER PLOTS
more image samples

Details
m2gif is a C program which runs under Unix or VMS:

Solaris (SunOS 5.3 or 5.4) on Sun hardware
SunOS (V4.1.3) on Sun hardware
OSF/1 (V3.0) on DEC alpha
VAX/VMS (V5.5-2) on DEC VAX
OpenVMS AXP (V6.1) on DEC alpha

m2gif contains support for the new Plot-Plus "fill" command.

m2gif started out as an Xwindows-dependent program by Dr. Donald W. Denbo.
Mark Renton changed it to use the gd library instead, and then greatly enhanced it.

Download m2gif
m2gif is freely available from the TOGA-TAO project office via the web.
(This link downloads m2gif V1.5). (It's also included in the Plot-Plus distribution.)

Note: To extract the files from the tar archive, use:

% uncompress m2gif.tar.Z % tar -xvf m2gif.tar

which will create and populate a sub-directory named m2gif.