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Autoplot allows plotting of data from many data sources, including remote CDF files and OpenDAP servers. Datasets are identified with URIs, and by the URI's extension, data are loaded into the internal data model. Data are then displayed by guessing the rendering method and axis ranges to provide a reasonable, useful view of the data. Data can then be additionally processed with other operations like smooth and FFT, and Jython scripting provides a capable programming environment.

This is the Autoplot v2019a branch. This is an update to the production version containing bugfixes and minor new features. Java 7 is now required. Java 8 will be required sometime soon.

Run with 4GB of memory (64-bit Java only): autoplot_4GB.jnlp

Single-jar version, autoplot.jar, can be run without network access and from the command line.

Mac DMG Release is available.

Bugfixes (2019-06-21 r23803):

• Gold Mission CDF file requests image for display type, and this should be ignored.
• 1960: NetCDF/HDF5 reader reads global attributes into metadata.
• vap+wdc works again, after discovering that new code assumed there was an extension.

Older Bugfixes:

• 2180: cache failures to read orbits so that we don't keep trying.
• 2181: runtime error caused by integer overflow in aggregation of many records.
• 2178: old add plot, vap file works again, so you can pick datasets from another vap file.
• reset axis units to now allows reset to data units as well, so that 'inconvertible units' can be addressed.
• 2174: run batch doesn't store the name of the script for convenience.
• 2065: recent .jy URIs with the parameters are now used for the recent URIs list in the "Run Batch" tool.
• 1980: copy/paste plot problems fixed.
• PropertyEditor listenForExternalChanges now recurses through all the beans, supporting the Autoplot DOM.
• corrections to code which calculates minor ticks given a set of major ticks.
• Submit feedback failed on Java 12 because of xml serialization, which no longer accepts null values.
• rte_0786587992: automatically remove single quotes from URIs, which prevent vap+jyds URIs from working in the mash up tool.
• 2171: new code in DasProgressMonitor was incorrect and could hang.
• paste plots from clipboard was too restrictive in validity test. Thanks, Kris!
• correct runtime error when DasAnnotation couldn't load image file.
• "convert Jython to Java" didn't set the popup background color.
• 2166: ".../foo.jyds?param=" fixed, where empty parameters are treated the same as missing parameters, using default values.
• round of memory leaks testing. See https://github.com/autoplot/dev/blob/master/bugs/2054/stressTestForLeaks.jy
• rte 1625162004: runtime error because of units during transition
• contours renderer was painting the off-screen labels, degrading performance.
• Propagate USER_PROPERTIES through FFTPower so that Juno waveforms don't show extraneous %{USER_PROPERTIES} in title.
• 2127: .../mms1_feeps_srvy_l3_electron_20180928000000_v6.0.1.cdf?intensity_energy_bins[0] showed there was an issue. Thanks, Allison!
• 2164: mouse module (e.g. box zoom) feedback is restored. Thanks, Masafumi!
• 2149: experiments with autorange considering bindings.

Features:

• NetCDF global attributes are available in the metadata.

Less recent features:

• Ephemeris tags can be monotonically decreasing.
• 2177: LookupAxis is compiled in now.
• add log10() method for Datum, used in tick calculations.
• PNG Image reader supports yaxis=[70,119,3200,588,log] for unplotting log axes.
• phasestart parameter in URI templates properly implemented, and can be used to look at for example Sunday images.
• Useful DasAxis reference property is now bound to the DOM.
• annotations now have "pointAtOffset" so you can back off the arrow head.
• experimental "convert Java to Jython" option in editor under developer, to assist me when testing Java fragments.
• total function now checks for high-rank DEPEND_2, for when the metadata is constant and can be preserved. Thanks, Jon N!
• rfe469: Contours renderer now supports +20m notation, to match axis, where a contour is drawn every 20 units.
• UByteDataSet has extra "collectString" method so strings can be extracted efficiently.

Known issues:

• see Source Forge
• Bugs often have a four-digit ID and can be reviewed with https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/bugs/<ID>/.
• Features typically have a three-digit ID and can be reviewed with https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/feature-requests/<ID>/.

This completes the feature set for the new production branch. No major features will be added before branching this version. A production branch will be started in a couple of weeks, and the "Start Autoplot" link at the top of autoplot.org will run this version. Feedback on the function and quality of this release is greatly appreciated!

Data is input from:

• ASCII files (.dat,.txt)
• CSV files (.csv)
• Binary files (.bin)
• CDF files(.cdf)
• Excel spread sheets (.xls)
• das2Streams (.d2s or .das2Stream)
• ViRBO's TSDS server
• CDAWeb data server (vap+cdaweb:)
• das2servers (vap+das2server:)
• QStreams (.qds), QDataSet on a das2Stream
• Plasma Wave Group das2 Server
• NetCDF files (.nc,.ncml)
• HDF5 files (.h5,.hdf5)
• DODs servers (.dds)
• Cluster Exchange Format files (.cef)
• Fits Format Files
• Images (.jpg, .png, .gif)
• Wav audio files (.wav)

This is not complete, and limitations include:

• Quantities of rank 3 dimensionality (e.g. flux(Time,Energy,pitch) are plotted by slicing.
• Quantities of rank 4 dimensionality (e.g. flux(Time,Energy,azimuth,sector) are plotted by slicing twice.

autoplot.org is the wiki website, and contains more information than this launch page.