Gwyddion
Gwyddion is a modular program for SPM (scanning probe microscopy) data visualization and analysis. Primarily it is intended for analysis of height fields obtained by scanning probe microscopy techniques (AFM, MFM, STM, SNOM/NSOM), however it can be generally used for any other height field and image analysis, for instance for analysis of profilometry data (learn more about Gwyddion features).
Gwyddion is Free and Open Source software, covered by GNU General Public License. It aims to provide multiplatform modular program for 2D data analysis that could be easily extended by modules and plug-ins. Moreover, the status of free software enables to provide source codes to developers and users, which makes the further program improvement easier.
Gwyddion works on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD operating systems on common architectures, all systems can be used also for developement. Its graphical user interface is based on Gtk+ and port to other systems supported by Gtk+ should be possible.
News
| Current versions | ||
| Stable: | 2.16 | |
| User guide: | 2007-06-28 | |
| gwydump: | 2.0 | |
| gwyiew: | 2.0 | |
| gwyfract: | 0.8 | |
2009-06-25: Version 2.16 “The TIFF Toll” was released. See the detailed news for more.
2009-05-20: Version 2.15 “Quartz Quest” was released. Not everything works smoothly with the Gtk+ Quartz port but hopefully we are getting there... This is mostly a bug-fix release, see the detailed list of changes.
2009-05-04: Patch fixing possible crash when a new channel or graph is created was released. See also Patches.
2009-03-18: Version 2.14 “Treacherous Thumbnails” was released. The detailed list of user visible changes is avilable in the usual place. Big thanks goes to Даниил Браташов for thorough translation testing and reporting of many translatability problems.
2009-02-10: Unfortunately, we did not get MSVC files completely right in version 2.13 either. To build this version of Gwyddion on MS Windows you need this patch.
2009-02-09: Version 2.13 “Rough Rounding” was released. See the detailed news for more.
2009-01-07: Unix manual pages of Gwyddion command are avilable on-line.
2009-01-05: Version 2.12 tarballs were unfortunately released with not up-to-date MSVC files. To compile Gwyddion 2.12 on MS Windows, this patch is necessary.
2009-01-04: Version 2.12 “Potty Pixels” was released. See the detailed news for more.
2008
2008-12-16: Version 2.11 “Lurking Lines” was released. See the detailed news for more.
2008-09-09: Sample standalone module threshold-example was updated to actually build and work with Gwyddion 2.x.
2008-07-01: Version 2.10 was released. See the detailed news for more.
2008-01-21: Official Debian unstable packages of Gwyddion are available.
2007
2007-10-19: Version 2.9 “FT2 Farewell” was released, it requires Gtk+ 2.8 (at least) on all platforms. Win32 executables were released too. See the detailed news for more.
2007-09-27: Former Tools and Toys were moved from download page to a new section Gwyddion Applications and two new Gwyddion applications were added: gwyfract and grapherAD.
Thanks
Gwyddion developement is supported by Czech Metrology Institute.
