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- From: jcollins@cmdl.gatech.edu (Jason Collins)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
- Subject: Help me--Matlab vs. C++
- Message-ID: <82050@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:08:14 GMT
- Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
- Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Lines: 37
- Originator: jcollins@cmdl.gatech.edu
-
- Hi!
-
- I need some advice on choosing between Matlab and C++ to do a graphics
- programming task on a 486 PC.
-
- I am about to begin working on a project where I will be needing some
- graphics to analyze a set of data. I would of course like quick results
- (i.e. all development done by 3 experienced people in a month) and a
- flexable graphics system.
-
- I will have an array of data with several columns of different data items.
- The rows contain the data for different points in time.
-
- I will be needing several windows showing the data manipulated in various
- ways and changing over time. In other words, the graph data will be
- animated.
-
- The possibilities for graphs I might need include
- animated 3d trajectories, 3d line graphs, polar plots, and normal line graphs.
- In addition, I would like to be able to speed up and slow down the animations.
- This will require getting keyboard input asyncronously. The positioning of
- the graphics windows with graphs should be fairly flexable at the codeing
- level but don't have to be moved during the running of the animation,
- although that would be nice.
-
- I have programming experience in both Matlab 3.5 and C++. I was wondering
- whether I should use C++ or Matlab. I am considering this question over
- reports that Matlab 4.0 for the PC with lots of nice features may be coming
- out in mid February. I will be evaluating a copy of Matlab 4.0 on a Sun
- in a few days. Any significant differences between this version and the
- upcomming PC version I should know about?
-
- Any comments and recomendations would be appreciated.
-
- - Thanks All,
- Jason Collins
- jcollins@cmdl.gatech.edu
-