Scientific Plotting Software for OS X

Sorted by price and subsorted by alphabet.

Free = $0, Most available through Fink
	Ctioga	http://sciyag.rubyforge.org/ctioga/index.html
	DataPlot	http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/index.htm
	FreeMat	http://freemat.sourceforge.net/
	gdl	http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net
	gnuplot/Aquaterm	http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot
	gnuplot/Qgfe	http://www.xm1math.net/qgfe
	Grace	http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace
	HippoDraw	http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/ek/hippodraw
	Generic Mapping Tools	http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu
	Grapher	http://www.apple.com
	Matplotlib/Python	http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net
	Octave	http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/octave
	OpenDX	http://www.bu.edu/cism/cismdx
	ParaView/vtk	http://www.paraview.org/HTML/Index.html
	Pgplot/Python	http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot
	Plot	http://plot.micw.eu/Main/HomePage
	QtiPlot	http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html
	Plotter	http://www.surfnetusa.com/jimd/objectivec.html
	R	http://www.r-project.org
	RL Plot	http://rlplot.sourceforge.net
	Scilab	http://www.scilab.org
	Sysquake LE	http://www.calerga.com
	Tioga	http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/tioga.html
	Veusz	http://home.gna.org/veusz
	VisIt/vtk	http://www.llnl.gov/visit
	vtk	http://www.vtk.org
	vvidget	http://www.vvidget.org

Cheap < $100
	$8	XYVue	http://www.damhave.com/XyVue/XyVue.html
	$30	OmniGraphSketcher	http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraphsketcher
	$24	2D Data Visualizer Pro	http://www.optunis.com
	$39	3D Data Visualizer Pro	http://www.optunis.com
	$60	Graphing calculator	http://www.pacifict.com
	$69	Data Graph	http://visualdatatools.com/DataGraph/index.html
	$95	Profit	http://www.quansoft.com

Moderate < $1000
	$120	Citrin	http://www.gigawiz.com/citrin.html
	$200	KaleidaGraph	http://www.synergy.com
	$225	Sysquake	http://www.calerga.com
	$299	Deltagraph	http://www.redrocksw.com
	$449	SmileLab	http://www.satimage.fr/software
	$550	Igor	http://www.wavemetrics.com
	$575	Aabel	http://www.gigawiz.com
	$715	DataDesk	http://www.datadesk.com

Expensive > $1000
	$1195	DataTank	http://www.visualdatatools.com
	$1500	Tecplot Focus	http://www.tecplot.com/products/focus/focus_main.htm
	$1895	Maple	http://www.maplesoft.com
	$1900	MatLab	http://www.mathworks.com
	$2400	IDL	http://www.ittvis.com
	$2495	Mathematica	http://www.wolfram.com
	$4000	Tecplot 360	http://www.tecplot.com

and of course the extra category: Stupid: Excel "A wordprocessor that calculates" -- Gary Johnson

Other lists of Scientific Graphics Resources:

http://www.acm.org/tog/Software.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/faq
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/StatResource.html
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Scientific/Processing_and_Visualization
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Scientific/Statistics_and_Graphing

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