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- From: chase@aphill.jhuapl.edu (Christopher J. Chase)
- Subject: Matlab versus IDL, PV-Wave?
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- Organization: The Applied Physics Lab
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:29:46 GMT
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- I have used Matlab in the distant past. Now we are using (and spending a
- lot of money for liscenses) IDL and for one project, PV-Wave (all on UNIX
- systems under X windows). How does Matlab compare with these in terms of
- computational ability (linking in code, variety of operators, memory usage,
- etc.) and data visualization (making your own X-widget programs, image
- processing, mapping capabilities, 3-D slicing/dicing, color, etc.). For one
- thing, IDL and PV-Wave seem very expensive. Also, the variety of canned
- procedures available in Matlab toolboxes seems much greater than with these
- programs. However, my impression is that the data visualiztion and widget
- capabilities of IDL and PV-Wave are better than Matlab.
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- I noticed an anouncement recently the RSI (the makers of PV-Wave) and the
- IMSL people are merging into one company.
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- Thanks in advance for your opinions,
- Chris Chase
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