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: | 2.20 | |
| User guide: | 2009-11-11 | |
| gwydump: | 2.0 | |
| gwyiew: | 2.0 | |
| gwyfract: | 0.8 | |
2010-06-30: Version 2.20 “Summer Surprise” was released. It adds support for the new Gwyddion Simple Field (GSF) file format and brings other improvements; see the the detailed news for more.
2009-12-15: Version 2.19 “Remote Remorse” was released. It adds three new file modules and fixes the nasty X11 remote control bug, among other thins, see the the detailed news for more.
2009-11-22: Nightly snapshots of all language versions of Gwyddion user guide are available also for on-line reading.
2009-11-11: A new version of Gwyddion user guide was released. Ready-to-read formats (HTML, PDF) were still published only for the English version. However, the work on French and Russian versions progresses well. The DocBook sources contain all the languages, also the nightly snapshots are available for all languages.
2009-10-04:
Patch
fixing the failure to start with option --remote-new on X11,
which is how the default desktop menu entries and launchers run Gwyddion, was
published.
See also Patches.
2009-10-03: Version 2.18 “Delaunay Delusion” was released. The new features and other changes are described in the detailed news.
2009-09-22: Version 2.17 “Leopard Lesson” was released. See the detailed news for more. Warning: New functions in Data Process → Synthetic can be dangerous for your productivity. Unfortunately, more similar functions are expected in the following versions.
2009-09-04: The GladeWin32 download links have been changed to direct downloads to avoid confusion regarding what Gtk+ runtime package is necessary to run Gwyddion on MS Windows. Note the current release of the user guide still contains the old, somewhat unhelpful links.
2009-07-31: A new version of Gwyddion user guide was released. The biggest change is the availability of a PDF version, however, there were many other improvements and updates.
2009-07-29: After quite a long time, the FreeBSD port of Gwyddion was brought up to date so it is at version 2.16 now. If you use Gwyddion on FreeBSD you are encouraged to take over the maintainership to help making the port updates more regular.
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.
Thanks
Gwyddion developement is supported by Czech Metrology Institute.
Collaboration with industrial partners is supported by ESF project Partner
Network for Cooperation of Universities, Research Institutes and Industry for
Development of Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies.
CZ.1.07/2.4.00/12.0019
