Origin is a software application with tools for data analysis, publication-quality graphing, and programming.
Origin contains powerful tools for all of your analytic needs, including peak analysis, curve fitting, statistics, and signal processing. To make data analysis more efficient, Origin supports many common formats for importing data, and exporting results. Multi-sheet workbooks and an integrated Project Explorer help you organize your Origin projects. Streamline your workflow by saving workbooks as analysis templates for repeat use.
With over 70 built-in graph types, Origin makes it easy to create and customize publication quality graphs to suit your needs. Many popular contour, 2D, and 3D graph types are supported, as are specialty graphs such as windrose, stock (OHLC), ternary (including ternary-contour), 2D vector and 3D vector, and several statistical plots.
Origin includes two built-in programming languages: Origin C, a C-based compiled language, and a scripting language called LabTalk™. Use them to automate graphing and analysis. Origin comes with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Code Builder , that makes it easy to write and debug your own code. Origin is also an Automation Server for users of VB, C++, C# and LabVIEW™.
NOTE: For a list of new features in the current version, 8.5.1, please view this page
Origin 8.5.1 features
- Transparency support for most plot types from scatter/bubble plots to 3D surfaces
- OLE container support for embedding equations into graphs
- Waterfall plots greatly enhanced with Z-axis and color map support
- 3D Graphing:
- Multiple intersecting Surfaces : Now plot multiple intersecting surfaces in the same 3D graph surface color from another matrix.
- Surface color from another matrix : Plot one matrix and specify the color map using data from a second matrix vectors. This feature is especially useful for displaying vector fields
- Error bars on symbols : Now display error bars from 3D scatter data.
- error bars on surfaces : Display error bars from any 3D surface.
- Drop lines from symbol to surface : Drop lines to a 3D surface help to add perspective and give a better sense of the residuals in 3D fitting.
- Plot contour and surface graphs directly from a worksheet without converting to matrix : Origin now supports plotting worksheet data as a virtual matrix.
- Google Maps style zooming and panning on graphs : Zoom and pan simultaneously over your Origin graphs.
- Image thumbnails for quick previews of multiple matrix objects : View and compare multiple matrix objects within the same matrix sheet.
- New Gadgets for regional statistics, differentiation and interpolation : The differentiate gadget plots your data side-by-side with any order derivative you choose.
- Improved image profile tool : The new image profile tool allows you to compare multiple profiles in both the horizontal and vertical.
- Redesigned data information window : A new data information window can display an array of parameters interactively for each data point in a graph.
- Label customization for column/bar graphs, and a flexible ternary scale : Use any data column to label column and bar graphs, and automatically label stacked columns and bars .
Color transparency support is available for most graph objects, including Columns and Bars, Fill Areas, Symbols and Lines, 3D Surfaces, and Contours.
Transparency is useful for displaying datasets that are partially or fully covered by other data.
A Gradient Fill can be applied to the page background or the axes background (layer) of a graph, and to the fill pattern and fill color of a graph object such as a column, bar, or area. Both one-color and two-color gradient fill is supported.
Origin 8.5 supports zooming in and out of worksheets, matrices (images and data), and graphs using the mouse wheel. A hand tool has been added for panning within a page. With the hand tool, you can easily move the contents of a graph, worksheet or matrix within its window. This is especially handy when the graph, worksheet, or matrix has been zoomed into such that the contents greatly exceed the screen dimensions.
Zoom + Pan (with the z key) is available when using other graph tools, such as the data selector, regional data selector, and mask tool, allowing you to pick exactly the desired point or region from a dense plot.
The 2D waterfall graph now supports a Z-axis, which can have either a linear or nonlinear scale.
In addition, the 2D Waterfall graph now supports both Y-value and Z-value color-mapping. Four color-mapping methods are supported in the GUI:
- Z - Value: Indexing,
- Z - Value: Direct RGB
- Z - Value: Color Mapping, and
- Y - Value: Color Mapping
MS-Word, MS-Excel, Equation objects can be embedded in Origin graphs. The embedded objects can be displayed on the graph as preview or icon. With the corresponding application program installed, the inserted objects may be edited simply by double clicking on them. Other objects, such as video and audio objects, can also be inserted into Origin graphs. Select from the existing object types, or use an existing file to create an object.
The Region Statistics Gadget. Select an elliptical or rectangular region on a graph, and perform descriptive statistics on the data points inside and outside of the region immediately; the Gadget works for single or multiple plots. This is useful for statistical analysis of data point clusters and dealing with outliers.
The Differentiate Gadget. Select a region on a graph and obtain the derivative of the curve instantly. The order of the differentiation can be customized.
The Interpolate Gadget. Select a region of data on a graph and then interpolate for more data points. Three interpolate methods are supported: linear, spline and b-spline. You can also specify the number of points to interpolate.
The Fitting Function Wizard guides you through the steps to define a fitting function. This includes defining the function name, independent and dependent variables, parameters, and the function body
3D vector plots depict three-dimensional fields and illustrate flow patterns in three-dimensional coordinates. In Origin, 3D vector plots can be created from XYZ XYZ data, which specify the start-point and the end-point of each vector; or they can be created from XYZ dXdYdZ data, which specify the change in distance dXdYdZ from the start point XYZ.
3D Error Bars are now supported in 3D Scatter graphs and 3D Surface graphs.
Intersection of multiple surfaces is supported. When multiple matrices are plotted in the same layer as surfaces, intersection can be properly displayed.
Another 3D graphing improvement allows plotting data from one matrix and designating the color map for the plot using the Z-values from a second matrix.
The option of addingDrop lines from data points to a 3D surface is now available.
Matrices now support thumbnails and more complete metadata. For each matrix object, a thumbnail image provides a preview of the data (thumbnails can be toggled on and off). In addition, matrix thumbnails can be used to navigate among several matrix objects within the same matrix sheet. Matrix header information has been improved to include Long Name, Units, and Comments for X Headers, Y Headers, and Z Headers.
In Origin 8.5, a worksheet can be treated as a virtual matrix for creating contour and surface plots. Supported plot types include:
- 3D Color Fill Surface
- 3D X constant with Base
- 3D Y constant with Base
- 3D Color Map
- Contour Color Fill
- Contour B/W lines
- Gray Scale Map 3D Scatter
- 3D Wire Frame
- 3D Wire Surface
- Matrix 3D Bars
The image profile tool has been redesigned. You can create vertical and horizontal profiles of contour plots and image plots. Multiple profiles can be created on the same plot in order to compare profiles at different positions.
The data information window has been redesigned to allow customization of the display, and can now include images and text from worksheet cells in addition to the data values themselves.
Label customization now allows data in any worksheet column to be used as a label in a graph. Labels can combine data from multiple columns as well.
Ternary plots now support a more flexible scaling range. Specify any subrange between 0 - 1
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