Building "serious" scientific applications with RunRev...

[Sarah]

I have developed applications to communicate with various scientific 
instruments and chart the results. As someone mentioned, the speed of 
execution may be slightly reduced, but the speed of development and 
ease of modification makes a very powerful argument for Revolution. I 
have been in the circumstance of needing to change control algorithms 
in the middle of an experiment and being able to edit the relevant 
stack and have the new algorithm running within minutes, without even 
shutting down the program.

Ken Ray's web site has some interesting tips on manipulating image data 
and there is a good demonstration of using Charts in the User 
Contributions area of the Rev web site. For manipulating matrices etc, 
while the code may turn out longer than it's C equivalents, I would bet 
that it would be much easier to read & debug.

Cheers,
Sarah


On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 11:52  pm, Peter Lundh wrote:

> Hi all-
>
> This autumn I started my PhD on Colour Imaging Science at the Derby
> University, UK. A requirement at the institute is knowledge of MatLab 
> and
> "C" - MatLab for modeling and C for compiling applications. MatLab I 
> know,
> so that's ok - but now I have to learn "C" on top of all the other 
> things I
> have to do.
>
> So my question is the following: Could Revolution (since I'm already
> familiar with it and like it!) be a substitute for "C" when developing
> scientific applications? Typical needs would be the ability to read,
> manipulate, display and output different types of image data, 
> Possibility to
> compute Matrix, Fourier and Polynomial algorithms etc.
>
> I'm also curious to know if any other list members have developed 
> scientific
> applications with RunRev, and in particular - since it's in my line of
> interest - Imaging, Psychophysical, or Colour related applications.
>
> -Peter
> -- 
> Peter Lundh
> E: simran at teleline.es
> UK
>
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