Autoplot Application (#{tag})

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On 32-bit systems, use the single-jar release and a 32-bit version of Java. These systems will be limited to 1GB of memory. Other Autoplot versions are available for about a year.

Jython code wraps Jupiter image in Lon,Lat to make polar image.

Autoplot allows plotting of data from many data sources, including remote CDF files and HAPI servers. Datasets are identified with URIs, and by the URI's extension, data are loaded into one uniform data model. Data are then displayed by determining the rendering method and axis ranges to provide a useful display with interactive axes and mouse actions. The data can then be further processed with other operations like smooth and FFT, and Jython scripting provides a capable programming environment.

This is the Autoplot v2026a branch. This is an update to the production version containing bugfixes and minor new features. Java 8 is required.

Autoplot's development is guided by feedback from those using it. Thanks for your feedback!

Bugfixes (2026-05-01):

• rte_0875073804: catch runtime error when trying to identify Jython line.

Older Bugfixes (2026-04-22):

• 2825: remove strange code which unnecessarily flipped Jupiter image. (Allow the xtags to be monotonic decreasing.) Thanks, Masafumi!
• Jython errors were printed twice to the console.
• 2824: don't print the Jython exception extra times.
• Starting up a bunch of CPUs with run batch could trigger race condition where one would fail. Now the guests wait for the host to finish setting up.
• Add kludge to support public GitLab filesystems on research-git.uiowa.edu. Rewrite much of GitLab support to work properly.
• Detect when two script parameters have the same name, instead of strange and inconsistent behavior.
• TimeParser properly supports $(x;name=band) where the extra map will contain "band"
• Properly handle commas in HAPI CSV quoted strings, as with https://cottagesystems.com/server/esac/hapi/data?start=2001-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&stop=2008-07-01T00:00:00.000Z&dataset=C4_CQ_ASP_CAVEATS
• New code for glob to regex added ^ and $ constraints, which the old implementation did not.

Features:

• Support $s (integer number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00Z), an extension of URI time templates.

Less recent features:

• catch when RGBA image is used for RGBImageRenderer, which is not supported.
• Add TRACERS orbit files ts1-roi-list, rs2-roi-list, and ts-tandem-rois
• Look for HAPI File Listing scheme.
• DataPointRecorder indicates number of points and number selected.
• GitHub and GitLab filesystems use API to access files, and soon tokens will allow access to restricted sites.
• Add NullDragRenderer and SimpleCrossHairRenderer to serve as base class for Mouse Modules. Example scripts here.

Data is input from:

• ASCII files (.dat,.txt)
• CSV files (.csv)
• Binary files (.bin)
• CDF files(.cdf)
• OpenDAP servers (.dds, .dods)
• PDS4 files (.lblx)
• PDS3 files (.lbl)
• Excel spread sheets (.xls)
• das2Streams (.d2s, .d2t, or .das2Stream)
• HAPI Servers (vap+hapi:)
• CDAWeb data server (vap+cdaweb:)
• das2servers (vap+das2server:)
• QStreams (.qds) (serialized version of internal model QDataSet)
• Plasma Wave Group das2 Server
• NetCDF files (.nc,.ncml)
• HDF5 files (.h5,.hdf5)
• DODs servers (.dds)
• Cluster Exchange Format files (.cef)
• Fits Format Files (.fits)
• Images (.jpg, .png, .gif)
• Wav audio files (.wav)
• ODL files (.sts)
• IDL Savesets (.sav)
• Matlab .mat files
• NumPy .npy files
• JSON lines file (.jsonl)
• RadioJove .sps and .spd files
• ESA TFCat files (.tfcat)

autoplot.org is the website containing more information than this launch page.