Fwd: Scilab

hi all


i'm forwarding this CVNet message in case others are interested.

best

denis

>Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:04:50 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Jeff Mulligan <jbm@...>
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>To: Mickey Rowe <rowe@...>
>cc: cvnet@...
>Subject: Re: CVNet - Matlab on Mac OS X
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>> I think there is a fair amount
>> of interest in these software products within the vision science
>> community, particularly among those of us using the Psychophysics
>> Toolbox.
>
>Last week I was at a conference where I met someone who told me about a
>piece of software called "scilab" (www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab), which has a
>syntax which is close to matlab's... I was told that it was very well
>supported, for example this person thought it has better support and more
>users than GNU's matlab clone "octave" ...
>
>The mac version may not be very up to date (The FAQ says you need system
>7, not tested on 6, kind of dates it :-). But the unix version ought to
>compile on OS X pretty easily?
>
>It might be interesting to see how much of the psych toolbox is understood
>by scilab...
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>Did I mention this it is available free of charge, and with full source
>code if desired?
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>happy coding,
>Jeff
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>p.s. I use neither matlab nor scilab, although at times I am tempted...
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