Grace/C2/Overview-of-Grace/English
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Title Slide |
Welcome to the tutorial on Overview of Grace. |
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Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will,
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Learning Objectives |
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System and Software Requirement |
To record this tutorial, I am using
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Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial,
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Code Files |
The files used in this tutorial are available in the Code Files link of this tutorial page.
Please download and use them while practising. |
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Plotting Data |
Why do we need to plot data?
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Slide Number 7 | Grace is a graphical 2D plotting program, for graphing and data fitting.
Official website of Grace is shown here. |
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Who can use Grace |
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Go to the website, http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ | Open your default web browser and go to the Grace website.
We will learn about the Grace parent website. |
Scroll down the page.
Point to the details in the page. |
Scroll down the page.
Notice the details about Grace in the page. |
Go to top of the page. | Go back to the top of the page. |
Click on the Gallery link. | Click on The Gallery link.
This page has several example files, which we can download. |
Cursor on the example table. | From here, we can download several Grace example projects and output files. |
Click on Charts.png. | I will click on charts.png and look at the chart style output in image format. |
Cursor on the graph image. | Notice the different types of graphs, Grace can draw for you. |
Go to Grace homepage. | You may pause the video and explore the example files on this page.
They are drawn in various plotting styles. Go back to the Grace homepage. |
Click on the Related projects and links. | Click on the Related projects and links on top of the page. |
Scroll down.
Cursor on the program list under, Projects using Grace as plotting backend. |
The page refreshes.
Scroll down the page. Notice the section, which lists, Projects using Grace as plotting back end. |
Cursor on the program list that incorporate Grace. | Many popular science programs are listed in this section.
These programs incorporate Grace for their plotting needs. |
Scroll up the page. | Scroll up the page to Forks/ Modification link. |
Cursor on the forks of Grace. | Due to the high popularity of Grace, many forks and modifications are available. |
Cursor on the list of forks of Grace. | There are several options for the user here. |
Go to | Windows users may use the QtGrace fork.
Click on the qtgrace link. Let’s go to Qtgrace website. |
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QtGrace |
QtGrace can be downloaded from this site.
Qtgrace is a fork of Grace with Nokia Qt SDK tools. This is a developer tool with the ability to create applications for various OS. |
Cursor on the Qtgrace page. | QtGrace has a few added features compared to it’s parent, Grace. |
Now let’s open a Grace project file. | |
Go to Desktop. | Go to Desktop.
Notice the file, line.agr. This is a Grace project file. |
Point to the file line.agr. | This file is provided to you in the Code files link of this tutorial.
Please download and extract the file. |
Select the file, right click, choose open with option and choose gedit. | Open this file using a text editor.
I will open the file in gedit text editor. |
Cursor on gedit window. | Windows users may use notepad or wordpad. |
Cursor on gedit window. | The graph projects are written in a text format by Grace. |
Scroll down the project text file. | Scroll down to view the project file.
Grace project files are written in a simple text format. Hence, the projects files can be made programmatically, without the Grace GUI. |
Close the gedit window. | Close the file by clicking on the x sign. |
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Benefits of Grace |
There are several benefits of using Grace.
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Video Clippings |
Now, we will briefly go through the individual tutorials created in this series. |
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Installation and Introduction of Grace Ubuntu Linux OS version 16.04 |
The first tutorial in the series is Installation and Introduction of Grace.
This tutorial explains about,
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Play ST. | Here is the video clipping of this tutorial. |
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Installation of QtGrace on Windows OS Windows 10 OS |
Next tutorial in the series is Installation of QtGrace on Windows OS.
In this tutorial, learner will,
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Play ST. | Here is the video clipping of this tutorial. |
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Creating a 2D Graphical Plot |
Next tutorial in the series is Creating a 2D Graphical Plot.
This tutorial explains about,
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Play ST. | Here is the video clipping of this tutorial. |
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Bar Chart and Error Bars Ubuntu Linux OS version 16.04 |
Next tutorial in the series is on Bar Chart and Error Bars.
This tutorial explains about,
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Play ST | Here is the video clipping of this tutorial. |
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Data Fitting |
Next tutorial in the series is Data Fitting.
This tutorial explains about ,
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Play ST | Here is the video clipping of this tutorial. |
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Fit an exponential decay curve Ubuntu Linux OS version 16.04 |
Next tutorial in the series is Fit an exponential decay curve.
In this tutorial, the learner will,
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Play ST | Here is the video clipping of this tutorial. |
Show spoken website on Grace tutorials. | Later on, we may add more tutorials in this series.
These tutorials will be available on this website. |
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Summary |
Now, let’s summarize. In this tutorial, we,
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Summary |
* Learned about Grace project file structure
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Spoken Tutorial Project |
This video summarises the Spoken Tutorial Project.
Please download and watch it. |
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Spoken Tutorial workshops |
The Spoken Tutorial Project team:
For more details, please write to us. |
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Forum for specific questions: |
You will have to register to ask questions. |
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Forum for specific questions: |
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Acknowledgement |
Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by MHRD, Government of India. |
This tutorial is contributed by IIT, Bombay.
Thank you for joining. |