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NKS 3rd Party/OS Software?

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Posted by: perlfan

I know that Wolfram Research, Inc is interested in developing the foremost in NKS software and utilities, but are there any 3rd party or open source efforts to build utilities - GUI or otherwise?

I know there are some basic NKS Perl modules on CPAN, but was curious to see if there were other more refined/complete efforts/

Does WR encourage the development of 3rd party tools or OSS?

Thanks


Posted by: Jason Cawley

We believe pretty strongly that the best environment for full research in NKS is Mathematica. Of course we encourage third parties developing packages and encourage users to submit and share examples and functional notebooks, for NKS and for other uses of Mathematica as well, through what we call MathSource.

http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter

Eric Weistein encourages user submissions to Mathworld. I encourage people to post sample notebooks on this forum. We occasionally cite third party tools outside of Mathematica that are particular interesting or noteworthy. Some recent examples are Brian Prentice's CA on irregular lattice stuff that Ed Pegg pointed to recently, and Andy Wuensche's Discrete Dynamics Lab.

http://forum.wolframscience.com/sho...s=&threadid=757

http://forum.wolframscience.com/sho...s=&threadid=657

It is a good thing for people to work on NKS, any way they choose to do so. We think you will get more done rapidly without reinventing the wheel if you build on what we've already done, and we think our program is the best way to do that. Many researchers have access to site licenses through institutions without knowing it - we don't think the barriers to using Mathematica for this are serious. Certainly if you want to share your work in ways we will look at, comment on, and further, Mathematica notebooks are your best bet.

On the particular subject of GUIs and using them for cross platform applications, GUI kit for Mathematica was meant to make this easy to do, and is a built in part of version 5.1. Between GUI kit and J-link, you can access any existing java library, etc.

http://www.wolfram.com/products/mat...n51/guikit.html

http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/jlink/


Posted by: perlfan

Looks interesting. Thanks.


Posted by: Brian Prentice

MCell is perhaps the best general purpose CA simulator available for personal computers running Microsoft Windows and Life32 is perhaps the best game of life player. Both of these excellent programs were written using Borland's Delphi software development system. Are such programs useful for exploring NKS? Can Mathematica be used to develop programs of similar capability, quality and ease of use?

References:

MCell by Mirek Wójtowicz
http://www.mirekw.com/ca/index.html

Life32 by Johan Bontes
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jbontes/

Delphi by Borland
http://www.borland.com/delphi/

Brian Prentice


Posted by: Jon Philpott

I am currently working on a very basic CA implementation/library for Scheme (specificly, DrScheme http://www.plt-scheme.org)

I'll post something here once its cleaned up and looking a bit nicer.. and also a bit more pretty :)


Posted by: Val Smith

Questions respectfully withdrawn.




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