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Re: IDL/Wave alternatives [message #22006]

Wed, 11 October 2000 00:00

Randall Smith
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Registered: November 1998

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<aaron@boofura.swcp.com> writes:

> I am looking for an IDL, PV-Wave, MatLab, -like product,
> free and open source.
>
> Does anybody know of any suggestions?
>
> I have run into scilab, which seems to be the front-runner to me.
> I once saw a graphing package mentioned in LINUX journal, from
> one of the USA National labs... but it seemed too minimal.
>
> I'm looking for something to do image processing.
> Writing new algorithms.
> If it has a nice interpreted command language, and open arhitecture,
> I'm willing to add c-modules to do things like import/export of
> various file formats.
>
> I just want to get images into data arrays that I can then play with.
>
> Thanks for any help.... including pointers to FAQ's.

Another possibility (although it doesn't have any built-in graphics
per-se) is S-lang (http://space.mit.edu/%7Edavis/slang.html) or ISIS
(http://space.mit.edu/ASC/ISIS/) which is built on top of S-lang and
does have graphics via pgplot. It's IDL-like but built with a
stack-based model. It's quite lightweight, and we've been using it as
a command language built inside our X-ray spectral analysis code.

Without any built-in graphics, S-lang can't be a drop-in replacement
for IDL, but if you've got a project that could really use a small,
powerful, and IDL-like scripting language, S-lang might be useful to
you.

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