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Scratch! Open source programming for kids

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

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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Geopsy & Dinver: processing of ambient vibration recordings

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

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

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

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

Posted on February 4, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

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

Posted on February 4, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

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

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

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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Gpiv

Posted on December 15, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

Gpiv is a graphic user interface program for recording and analyzing images obtained from a fluid flow that has been seeded with tracer particles by the so-called Particle Image Velocimetry technique (PIV). The program allows to have a quick overview … Continue reading →

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AMBER

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

AMBER is group of programs used for simulation of biomolecules. It is highly efficient parallel MD simulation program written in FORTRAN. Find AMBER at: http://ambermd.org/

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New Software Links

Posted on November 25, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

We’ve been completely swamped lately with duties relating to Freshman chemistry. There’s been a backlog of new OpenSource scientific software, so without further ado: In our Partial Differential Equation section, we’ve got a new link to FEniCS, which appears to … Continue reading →

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Gretl

Posted on October 29, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

Gretl (Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library) is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language. It is is free, open-source software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU … Continue reading →

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