Welcome to ZVView
Interactive Plotting of Nuclear Data
V.Zerkin, Kiev-Vienna, 1996-2007

  Now on Mac OS X !  (since June-2007)

Introduction
ZVView is a multi-platform software package that has been designed so that evaluators of nuclear reaction data can perform efficient interactive visual analyses of cross section data retrieved from the EXFOR and ENDF libraries. The main function of ZVView is to plot these data for inter comparison, using a variety of options to study graphical, numerical and bibliographic information along with the possibility of analysing the results of the user's evaluations. ZVView allows changes to the plotting procedures, logarithmic and linear scales, zoom, split plot to sub-windows, smoothing by least-squares method, choice of data and authors to be plotted, and scans of their points, change language on the fly, etc. (see [User's Guide]). Pictures can be saved as PS/EPS (PostScript), EMF (Windows Meta File), PCX and GIF files to be imported into LaTeX, MS-Word and other applications for further forms of publishing. Example screen-shots: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].

Usage
As well as stand-alone usage, ZVView is called from other software packages, such as Empire, Endver/GUI, EXFOR-CINDA-CD in interactive mode, from the EXFOR-ENDF Web-retrieval system in non-interactive mode, and also as Web-Browser Helper-Application in several products organized as Html pages with interactive graphics: PGAA, NG-Atlas, FENDL in Pictures, IRDF-2002 and others.

Background
The ZVView package is based on the universal graphics library DINAMO^©, which was written in C-language in 1993-1998 by V. Zerkin at Kiev*. The library was designed to be used on a wide range of computer platforms as universal software tools for various applications in nuclear research. ZVView is one such application developed by the author that can be used for specialized nuclear data analysis. ZVView was developed through 1996 (while the author was working in the Institute for Nuclear Research, Kiev, Ukraine) and has continued to evolve at the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).
*DINAMO - Copyright © - 1998, Viktor Zerkin, registered: Ukraine, ПA N1539