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-GMT is an open source collection of about 80 command-line tools for
-manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering,
-trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing PostScript
-illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots via contour maps to
-artificially illuminated surfaces and 3D perspective views; the GMT
-supplements add another 40 more specialized and discipline-specific
-tools.
+GMT is an open-source collection of command-line tools for manipulating
+geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting,
+gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing PostScript illustrations
+ranging from simple x-y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated
+surfaces and 3D perspective views. It supports many map projections and
+transformations and includes supporting data such as coastlines, rivers,
+and political boundaries and optionally country polygons.
By default, GMT will use Dave Watson's Delaunay triangulation routine.
However, a much faster alternative is available from Jonathan Shewchuk,
@@ -14,5 +14,15 @@ by passing the SHEWCHUK parameter:
SHEWCHUK=yes ./GMT.SlackBuild
-For more details refer to the README and LICENSE.TXT files contained
+For movie-making capabilities the following dependencies are needed:
+
+ GraphicsMagick
+ ffmpeg
+
+Other optional dependencies are:
+
+ blas
+ lapack
+
+For more details refer to the README.md and LICENSE.TXT files contained
into the GMT sources.