3DMA-Neuron runs under Unix/Linux operating systems. We have developed it under the RedHat operating system for releases RH6.X through RH9.X. It has also been run under SGI Irix and SUN UNIX operating systems.
The graphical user interface for 3DMA-Neuron requires either Motif (The Open Group)
http://www.opengroup.org/motif/.or Lesstif (Lesstif.org)
http://www.lesstif.org.windowing libraries.
3DMA-Neuron produces two types of graphic plots: x-y plots displaying results from statistical analyses, and projective plots displaying 2D views of the user's data set during manipulation. Processing and/or display of these plots utilizes inexpensive software.
The x-y plots are written in "Jgraph" (James Plank, U. Tennessee)
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/jgraph/jgraph.htmlwhich is a readable, highly intuitive, text based, plot scripting language. A version of "Jgraph" is included ("med_ax/bin/JGRAPH/") with the 3DMA-Neuron distribution. "Jgraph" produces encapsulated Postscript output. Currently 3DMA-Neuron displays the postscript via the Postscript interpreter "ghostview"
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostview/ghostview.htmldistributed by the GNU opensource consortium. "ghostview" is available through the standard RedHat Linux OS distributions up through RH8.0. Under RH9.0 it is replaced by "Gnome ghostview" ("ggv", Gnome.org)
http://www.gnome.org/lxr/source/ggvA single source line change must be made to the 3DMA-Neuron distribution to accomodate a change of Postscript interpreter from "ghostview".
Two dimensional projective plots are printed as files in SUN RASTER ("*.ras") format. The files are compressed using the GNU "gzip" ("*.gz") facility. 3DMA-Neuron displays these projective plots via "xv" (John Bradley, Trilon)
http://www.trilon.com/xv/One advantage to "xv" is that it recognizes "gzip" compression files (extension ".gz"). A single source line change must be made to the 3DMA-Neuron distribution to accomodate a change of rasterfile viewer from "xv".