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NCAR Graphics is thoroughly documented in:

• Programmer documents for some of the graphical utilities (also known as the Low Level Utilities or LLUs) - these documents are the software developers' reference notes and are provided for users who want to explore the information that developers use to maintain a utility's source code. They can also be very helpful to users and contain many examples:
  • Areas, A Package that Solves Certain Practical Problems in Topology
    
  • Autograph, A Package of Routines to Draw X/Y Plots
    
  • CGM, Graphcap, and Fontcap Supplement
    
  • Conpack, A Contouring Package
    
  • Conpackt, A Contouring Package for Triangular Meshes
    
  • Dashpack, A Software Package for Drawing Dashed Lines
    
  • Ezmap, A Map-Drawing Package
    
  • Gflash, A Graphics Instruction Manipulation Package
    
  • Gridal, A Package to Draw Backgrounds for X/Y Plots
    
  • Isosurface, A Package of Routines used to Draw Isosurfaces
    
  • Labelbar, A Package of Routines to Draw Labelled Bars
    
  • Plotchar, A Character-Plotting Package
    
  • Polypack, A Package of Routines to Manipulate Polygons
    
  • SPPS, An NCAR System Plot Package Simulator
    
  • Stitle, A Package to Create Scrolled Movie Titles
    
  • Seter, A Centralized Error-Handling Package for NCAR Graphics
    
  • Softfill, A Software Fill Package
    
  • Streamlines, A Field Flow Visualization Utility
    
  • Tdpack, A Three-Dimensional Plotting Utility
    
  • Vaspackt, A Vector and Streamline Package for Triangular Meshes
    
  • Vectors, A Vector Field Plotting Utility
    
  • Wmap, A Package for Producing Daily Weather Maps and Plotting Station Model Data
    

• The introductory user guide to the Ngmath library - a collection of mathematical procedures for which there are equivalent Fortran and C entries.

• The NCAR Graphics GKS manual User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics

• The introductory user guide NCAR Graphics Fundamentals - this document is old and hasn't been updated for several years, but it contains important information for all users of NCAR Graphics: a glossary of terms, explanation of the structure of NCAR Graphics programs, strategies for learning to use NCAR Graphics, instructions for compiling, linking, and running programs, instructions for producing and editing output from NCAR Graphics programs, and guidelines for using the utilities. While it also introduces the Fortran interface to some of the traditional NCAR Graphics utilities, we recommend that you read the programmer documents (when available) instead. The programmer docs provide the most up-to-date information and the latest examples.

• The training manual NCAR Graphics Contouring and Mapping Tutorial - this document, like the Fundamentals, hasn't been updated for several years, but it is still useful. It's a learning tool for beginning and intermediate users of the Fortran interface to NCAR Graphics. It gives examples and describes how to use all routines in the Areas, Ezmap, and Conpack utilities. Users combine these routines to prepare NCAR Graphics programs that fill areas, draw maps, and contour data fields. Programmer docs are also provided for Areas, Ezmap, and Conpack, and they contain the most up-to-date information.

• Examples - there are several hundred Fortran and C examples that show NCAR Graphics capabilities and help you to understand and use the code that produces the graphics.

  The ncargex command allows you to access these Fortran and C examples. Procedures for using ncargex appear in the NCAR Graphics Fundamentals chapter "Five quick steps for creating and viewing your plot." A pictorial index to most NCAR Graphics examples is provided in Appendix D.