Experimentation with data and the production of publication-quality graphs

IGOR Pro

IGOR Pro is an interactive environment for experimentation with scientific and engineering data and for the production of publication-quality graphs and page layouts.

Here are the main strong points of IGOR Pro:

• IGOR Pro produces journal-quality scientific graphs.
• IGOR Pro handles large data sets very quickly.
• IGOR Pro includes a wide range of capabilites for analysis and graphing.
• IGOR Pro has special support for time-series or other evenly-spaced data.
• IGOR Pro imports data in many formats, and acquires data from GPIB and the serial port.
• IGOR Pro is completely programmable via a built-in programming environment, and can be extended by external code written in C.
• IGOR Pro doesn't require any programming; most functionality is available using standard Macintosh menus, dialogs, and the mouse.

IGOR Pro produces graphics that you would be proud to publish: IGOR prints at the full resolution of the printer and exports high-resolution graphics formats such as Encapulated PostScript (EPS).
IGOR Pro allows multiple data sets of any length to be displayed in any number of graphs and tables. IGOR is very fast and excels at handling large data sets (more than 100,000 points, for example). String data and numeric data in 8 internal formats and up to four dimensions are supported.
In graphs, each curve has its own color, line size, and style. Line color, marker size, and marker shape (or marker text) for each point on a curve can be set by values in another data set. Any number of curves, axes, annotations, contour curves, pictures, or images may be displayed in a graph. Category plots and error bars are fully supported. It is easy to zoom in and pan around a graph. Graphs have cursors for reading out coordinates of individual data points.
Page layout windows present graphs, tables, text annotation, and pictures. Fonts, type sizes, and styles can be mixed in axis labels and annotation.
Drawing tools can be used add callouts to your graphs (using screen or data coordinates) and to page layouts.
Analysis capabilities include Fourier transforms, linear, and non-linear curve fitting to built-in and user-defined functions of an unlimited number of parameters, histograms, integration, differentiation, convolution, correlation, smoothing, mathematical expression evaluation, matrix operations, signal measurement, contouring of sparse or matrix data, image filtering, and false-color displays.
The built-in Notebook editor is a full-featured word processor that you can use to combine text and graphics. IGOR Pro graphics in notebooks can be set to dynamically update, and Mac OS Publish and Subscribe is supported.
IGOR Pro includes a structured programming language that allows automation of importing, file I/O, analysis, data acquisition, graphing, drawing, printing, and just about anything you can think of. You can add menus to the program and create control panels containing buttons, checkboxes, popup menus, and other controls to set parameters or display results.
IGOR Pro ships with numerious examples illustrating (among other things) peak fitting, signal processing, data acquisition, test automation, and graphing techniques.
XOPs supplied with IGOR Pro provide importation of text, general binary, and JCAMP data files, loading of HDF, TIFF, PICT and Sun Raster files, slicing of 3D data, and lots more!
IGOR Pro 's comprehensive manual is provided in Adobe® Acrobat PDF format. The online documentation is fully searchable and contains numerous hot-linked cross references so you can quickly find the information you need.
XOPs supplied with IGOR Pro provide serial port and GPIB (IEEE 488) communications, importation of Excel and MatLab data files, sound input and output, and lots more!
With the optional NIDAQ Tools, IGOR Pro can also directly acquire analog and digital signals from most National Instruments "multifunction" data acquisition boards, including the PCI-MI016XE-50 and PCI-1200 series.

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Features

IGOR Pro is an interactive environment for experimentation with scientific and engineering data and for the production of publication-quality graphs and page layouts.

Graphics Speed

• Dramatically faster than competing programs
• Graphs refresh almost instantly
• Special support for real-time data

Graphics Flexibility

• Unlimited number of curves and axes on a graph
• Unlimited number of graphs
• Precise control of graph features
• Customizable dashed lines
• Full support for error bars
• Text markers and 45 built-in symbols
• 72 fill patterns, positive and negative fills, and fill between curves
• Text annotations with subscripts, superscripts, font and style changes
• High-resolution drawing tools

Graphics Quality

• True publication quality
• Uses full resolution of output device
• Exports high-resolution graphics formats including EPS
• Supports cross-platform PNG format

Curve Fitting

• Linear and nonlinear least-squares
• Automatic calculation and display of residuals
• Confidence and prediction bands
• Multivariate curve fitting
• Fitting with constraints
• Arbitrarily complex user-defined fitting functions

Analysis Capability

• Descriptive statistics, area under curve
• Searching including peak and level detection
• Multi-dimensional mixed-radix FFT, wavelet transforms
• Integration and differentiation
• Smoothing, convolution, correlation
• Matrix math
• Histograms
• Sorting
• Waveform math manipulates entire array

Data Formats

• Unlimited data size; up to four dimensions
• Two floating point and six integer formats, strings
• Special support for waveform (equally-spaced) data
• Reads Excel files, text, binary and many others

Advanced Features

• Contour, image, category and layer plots
• Image analysis
• Capture images from a live video display
• Color, marker size, marker as function of a third data set
• Volumetric graphical slicer
• 3D surface plotter
• Hierarchical data organization using data folders
• Create QuickTime movies

Programmability

• Complete built-in structured programming language
• User-definable math and string functions
• All aspects of IGOR Pro can be programmed
• Completely controllable by external scripting systems

Customization

• Add your own menus
• Define control panels with buttons, inputs, outputs
• Create custom help for other users

Extensible

• Supports external code modules
• Many drop-in code modules supplied
• Write your own external code modules in C with optional XOP Toolkit also available from WaveMetrics

Mac OS Features

• IGOR Pro is extensible by C programmers using the optional IGOR XOP Toolkit.
• IGOR Pro can be controlled through the DoScript Apple Event, and can execute an AppleScript program to control other programs.
• IGOR Pro has truly useful balloon help.
• Publish & Subscribe

Windows 95/NT 4 Features

• Windows help system for IGOR reference and help.
• Windows, dialogs, and menus incorporate context-sensitive help, status line help, or tool tips as appropriate.
• IGOR Pro can communicate with other Windows programs via DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) to interactively share data between these programs and IGOR Pro.

System Requirements für IGOR Pro:

Windows

• Windows 98/2000/Me/XP

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Macintosh

• System 9.1 or MacOS X

Prices:

The following articles can be bought now directly from the supplier.

IGOR Pro 6 Parcel delivery / plus forwarding expenses Upgrade from every former IGOR Pro licence English WIN2000 / WINVISTA / WINXP	EUR 249,00
IGOR Pro 6 Parcel delivery / plus forwarding expenses English WINXP / WINVISTA / WIN2000	EUR 555,00
XOP Toolkit 5 Parcel delivery / plus forwarding expenses English WIN95 / WIN98 / WINNT	EUR 186,00