Author Archives: Dan Gezelter

New Software Links

Some cool new user-submitted software links today: SAGE is math software that supports research and teaching in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, and related areas. It looks very useful. CAE Linux is an entire Linux distribution designed specifically … Continue reading

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EquPlus

EquPlus looks like a pretty neat resource. They have a large library of equations from many mathematically-related fields. Each equation can be cut-and-pasted into your documents in LaTeX, MathType, or MathML code. There are also Constants, SI Units, Symbols, and … Continue reading

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Scratch! Open source programming for kids

I spent about 2 hours last night playing around with a new programming language called Scratch, which was designed for kids. You snap together programs from logical building blocks that you can drag over from a programming palette. There’s also … Continue reading

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Biochemistry with the Stars!

I know it isn’t, but boy do I wish this was true: via the always wonderful Pharyngula

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Geopsy & Dinver: processing of ambient vibration recordings

Geopsy and Dinver are distributed in Sesarray package initiated during European project SESAME (2004). Geopsy is a graphical user interface and a core library to handle seismic signals (especially long ones). Signals can be displayed and processed (filter, fft, taper, … Continue reading

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GQR

GQR (Generic Qualitative Reasoner) is a solver for binary qualitative constraint networks. GQR takes a calculus description and one or more constraint networks as input, and tries to solve the networks using the path consistency method and backtracking. Both spatial … Continue reading

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Salome

SALOME is a free software that provides a generic platform for Pre and Post-Processing for numerical simulation. It is based on an open and flexible architecture made of reusable components available as free software. It is open-source (LGPL), and you … Continue reading

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Code Aster

Code Aster is a genaral purpose FEA code. It has the ability to solve problems in non-linear thermo-mechanics, coupled fluid-structure dynamics, sismic/non-linear explicit dynamics, contacts, and visco-plasticity. Find Code Aster at: http://www.code-aster.org/

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JTS Topology Suite

The JTS Topology Suite is an API of 2D spatial predicates and functions. It has the following design goals: * JTS conforms to the Simple Features Specification for SQL published by the Open GIS Consortium * JTS provides a complete, … Continue reading

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OpenScience Music

Jonathan Coulton‘s music is about as close as one can get to the perfect accompaniment to the OpenScience project. He’s got songs like Code Monkey about the lives and times of coders, and he’s got the best song about fractals … Continue reading

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