Chapter 1. Overview

Multigraph is Java software for interactive scientific graphics display. It was written for displaying weather observation data for the Climate Reference Network at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville NC. It is very general, however, and can be used for displaying many other kinds of data. It is particularly well suited for displaying time-series data.

Multigraph consists of a java class library, and an applet, called MultiGraphlet, that uses that library. MultiGraphlet is a general-purpose interactive viewer for time-series data. This document describes MultiGraphlet, including the steps involved in using MultiGraphlet to display data from a data source. Note that modifying the java source code isn't generally necessary in order to use MultiGraphlet to display a new data set, or to customize the way MultiGraphlet displays the data.

API documentation for the multigraph class library is distributed with multigraph in the "javadoc" subdirectory, and is available on the multigraph web site.