SciTopia: LiveCode in Science

[David Bovill]

Thanks Francois - sorry about the old email address. I'll look into porting
the BLAS library<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprograms>,
will need to get a quote on how much it would cost - so if anyone is
interested in doing the work - and doesn't mind sending in a quote that
would be incorporated in the funding bid - great.

Francois - out of interest what sort of applications would you be
interested in developing, and why would you use LiveCode for this?

NB - my interest specifically is in graphing, semantic networks, and
generative landscapes. More generally we are looking at science simulations
and games. I've been doing some work on a training simulation for A&E
Departments, which we'd like to take forwards with this project. Another
project partner is interested in 3D structures of Dendrimers and similar
macromolecular structures. Project partners would get access to the shared
resource or programmers and designers. International collaborations are
welcome, as are commercial companies that are seeking to build commercial
apps that utilise open content in some way.


On 18 April 2013 21:54, François Chaplais <
francois.chaplais at mines-paristech.fr> wrote:

> I would like very much to be able to do applied maths on it, but the would
> require stricter typing of objects to be able to implement the IEEE
> standard on number representations. For starters, an port of the BLAS
> library, which includes routines for linear algebra and linear problem
> solving would be useful. Also, support for 64bit and Cocoa on the mac would
> be welcome, this a well needed update on the writing and building of
> externals, notably with decent support of multicore processors.
> Until then...
> Best regards
>         François
>
> François Chaplais
> MINES ParisTech
> Centre Automatique et systèmes
> Ecole des Mines de Paris
> http://cas.ensmp.fr/~chaplais/en/
>
> Le 18 avr. 2013 à 13:11, David Bovill a écrit :
>
> > This is a call out to anyone using LiveCode in a Scientific setting - or
> in
> > the area of public engagement in Science.
> >
> > I am putting together a bid to create an open archive for scientific
> games,
> > and simulations in Science. There will be a particular emphasis on
> mobile,
> > but we will also be working with real science data, and API's. I am
> making
> > the application to the Wellcome Trust for a 2 year project, at a new Hub
> to
> > be built in London. The project will start in September 2014.
> >
> > The core team are a great group of architect, game designers, and
> > scientists each with many years experience in biomedical modelling. Prior
> > to LiveCode going open source, we had concentrated on the Unity3D
> platform,
> > but now the real benefits of openly licensed content, and code, which is
> a
> > perfect fit for science and the Wellcome remit - makes LiveCode an
> > important aspect of the project.
> >
> > We are looking for partners, advice and expressions of interest - the
> > resource, should we succeed will be open to scientists, companies,
> > not-for-profits and individual with ideas to develop games, mobile apps,
> > simulations, for the benefit of biomedical science and it's appreciation
> > and understanding by the wider public. A bit of a mouthful, but you get
> the
> > point :)
> >
> > So if anyone is interested, or has any suggestions of any individuals or
> > organisations that may be interested please point them this way. An
> initial
> > project web site and description of the project aims and focus will be
> > online in a couple of weeks.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> >
> > David
>