Status of {open_quotes}Nirvana{close_quotes}: High quality GUI based software for HEP
Matthew Edel, J. Kryiakopulos, P. Lebrun, Jan Kallenbach, S. Ravoor, K. Iourcha · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1994
The Fermilab {open_quotes}Nirvana{close_quotes} project has produced a number of tools for data analysis in High Energy Physics. The authors goal has been to produce software which takes maximum advantage of the workstation graphical user interface. Histo-Scope and NPlot enable users to browse data from running programs and HBOOK, Histo-Scope, and columnar text files. They also provide highly interactive two and three dimensional plots which can be rotated, scaled and adjusted directly with the workstation mouse. The newest program, NFit, a GUI version of the MINUIT fitting program, will be ready in a few months. In addition, NEdit, the programmer`s text editor, was released as public domain in December. The authors discuss the basics of these software products, as well as improvements in the newest versions of Histo-Scope, NPlot, and NEdit.