Re: [Sheflug] Evolution, Ximian in general...

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> You may want to try scilab. It has a graphical interface much reminiscient of
> MATLAB for windows, as well as some very funky graphing stuff (3d animated
> pushbike, anyone?)
> 
> I haven't found anything Octave won't do that MATLAB will. Well, that I want,
> anyway, and of course not taking SimuLink into account.
> 
> Although I'm not sure about polar graphing, I'm sure that the Octave/GNUplot
> combo can cope admirably well with log scales on one or both axes of a normal,
> 2 or 3 dimensional rectangular graph.
> 
> Check the docs thoroughly. I printed the manual to Octave (yes, really), and
> still refer to it on regular occasions. Similarly, the help built into GNUplot
> (run it at the command line and type 'help') is nothing short of superb. Give
> it a shot.
> 
> Best of luck,
> 
> Craig

Another one to look at (not used it personally, but a friend at Uni (when 
I was at Uni a few years ago)) is Ptolemy. See http://ptolemy.eecs.berkele
y.edu/ ... giving a quick read, there's a Ptolemy II out now as well...so 
take yer pick.

He sued it in a final year project investigating fiber optics, IIRC, and 
was recommended it now his supervisor (who didn't know it but heard it 
was good - typical academic :)

Chris...


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