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URAPIV – open source Matlab Toolbox for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) analysis

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

URAPIV is an open source Matlab Toolbox for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) analysis. Particle Image Velocimetry is a planar, non-intrusive, optical imaging measurement technique that allows for two-dimensional, high-resolution velocity vector fields of laminar and turbulent flows. Find URAPIV – … Continue reading →

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GFortran

Posted on January 9, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

I just realized that I don’t have any links in our Programming Languages section, so I’ve added a link to GFortran, the gcc front-end for Fortran 95 (which is not the same as g95). I haven’t yet tried to compile … Continue reading →

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GFortran

Posted on January 9, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

Gfortran is the name of the GNU Fortran 95 project, developing a free Fortran 95 compiler for GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. The gfortran development effort uses an open development environment in order to attract a larger team of developers … Continue reading →

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SimTK.org

Posted on December 30, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

I’m not really sure what SimTK.org is all about yet, but they do look like they have some interesting things in the works. Of particular interest to me is the Molecular Dynamics Language and the Simbody multibody dynamics toolset. Check … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing?

Posted on December 14, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

Greg Wilson has written a great article in American Scientist on the shocking absence of modern software development practices from groups that do science using computers. I know exactly what Greg is talking about. Some of the groups I’ve worked … Continue reading →

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YACAS

Posted on December 5, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

We have a new link today in our Abstract Algebra section for YACAS, which stands for “yet another computer algebra system”. YACAS is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. … Continue reading →

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Yacas

Posted on December 5, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

YACAS is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. It uses its own programming language designed for symbolic as well as arbitrary-precision numerical computations. The system has a library of … Continue reading →

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K3DSurf

Posted on December 1, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

We have a new software entry today for K3DSurf in our Mathematics section. K3DSurf is a program for visualizing and manipulating multidimensional surfaces by using Mathematical equations. It’s also a “modeler” for POV-Ray in the area of parametric surfaces. It … Continue reading →

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http://k3dsurf.sourceforge.net/

Posted on November 25, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

K3DSurf is a program for visualizing and manipulating multidimensional surfaces by using Mathematical equations. It’s also a "modeler" for POV-Ray in the area of parametric surfaces. It features 3D, 4D, 5D, and 6D HyperObjects visualization, full support for all functions … Continue reading →

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VLinux

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

We’ve got a new link today to VLinux in our Bioinformatics section. VLinux is a Live CD for Bioinformatics. It contains various sequence and structure analysis tools (including EMBOSS,GDE,Rasmol,PyMOL,GROMACS,Phylip,Arka/Genpak,ClustalW/ClustalX,TCoffee, Seaview,Garlic, Ramachandran Plot viewer, Primer, XMolCalc, NJPlot, and more). [tags]bioinformatics,linux[/tags]

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