gbPlot description
Provides colorful plots of 3D surface equations.

gbPlot application was designed to provide colorful plots of 3D surface equations.

Features include pre-loaded equations, retreival of equations from an online database of over 75,000,000 equations, solid, wireframe, and point image formats.

Here are some key features of "gbPlot":

3D Equation Plotting
· Equations of the form z=f(x,y)
· Colorful VRML display (18 color gradients)
· Parameter editing (XY range, scale, bounding limits)
· Edit, sort, add, delete, and re-order equation list
VRML Display Feature
· On-screen positioning controls
· Mouse control of image position
· Rotation
· Zoom
· Examine, Walk, and Fly viewing options
· Home positioning
General Display Features
· Side by side equation and image display panes
· Toolbar with most frequently used features
· Resizable image window
· VRML background color selection
· Use of registry to store viewing options
Export Options
· Send image to clipboard
· Save image as BMP file
· Save image as WRL (VRML) file
· Export equation list as text
· Submit equations to gbPlot web site for posting
Help Options
· Online Help web page
· Detailed function definitions
· Online update to latest version
Wallpaper
· If you've just completed adjusting a display to exactly the way you want it you can save it for display in another session. But why wait? Use the Edit/Set Wallpaper menu option to change the desktop wallpaper to a centered image of what you see in gbPlot Enhanced.
Slideshow Mode
· Chose the Options/Slideshow menu option and watch gbPlot Enhanced cycle endlessly through the complete list of equations. An approximate 2 second delay is used between each image.
Angled Startup
· With gbPlot Enhanced you can have the image automatically rotated so that you can see the 3D nature of the image. This feature saves you a lot of time when you want to scroll through the equations, looking for a particular image - by eliminating the need to use the mouse to manually rotate each image.
AutoSave Images
· When you pick the File/Save Image to File menu option, the freeware version of gbPlot saves the image to a file that is always named "gbPlot.bmp". With gbPlot Enhanced you can have the image file automatically named to "gbPlt001.bmp", with subsequent saves incrementing the filename as "gbPlt002.bmp", "gbPlt003.bmp", ...
· When the filename reaches "gbPlt999.bmp", it will recycle to "gbPlt001.bmp".
· You can use this to capture many images in a sequence - such as when you're automatically rotating the gbPlot Enhanced image and want to capture several images to support building an Automated GIF of the rotation.
Batch Load of User-Defined Equations
· Do you have your own list of equations to add to gbPlot Enhanced? gbPlot Enhanced will add a list of equations from a simple text file (which must be named "batch.txt", and which is located in the gbPlot folder). Use the Equations/Batch Load Equations menu option to add the contents of the text file to the existing equation list. This can be much faster than loading the equations one at at time within gbPlot Enhanced.
· Don't forget to save the list when you exist (gbPlot Enhanced will automatically remind you to save any changes made to the equation list)!