[Phys-L] comment re $$$ Re: AI drawing tool for simple illustrations?
> On Dec 23, 2023, at 20:34, John Denker via Phys-l <phys-l@mail.phys-l.org>
> wrote:
>
> For anything resembling 2D data visualization, such as a XY scatter plot or a
> curve in the XY plane, I use a spreadsheet. In particular, I use *gnumeric*
> ... which is a free and open-source analog to $$$ MS excel.
Equivalent apps. are “bundled” in Apple machines — I suppose that’s one reason
why they are so expensive. I have the impression that they have reduced their
prices.
A BTW, I splurged and purchased the most expensive watch, because I received an
announcement that due to a legal problem Apple would stop selling two watches.
This was part of their graphs showing the popularities of various companies'
watches.
bc … has sub’d to very much too many publishers, especially substackers. And
wonders if gnumeric is related to all the gnu programs he used in the 80’s
plus. He even became very adept at text writing W/O a trackpad. And, of
course, can’t remember the name; the graphing program, also. He could go to
one of his many book shelves and pull out the CATS [1] pamphlet Unix for
Dummies.
[1] UCSC’s Computer and Telephone Service