[OS X TeX] Simple Illustration Program

Martin Costabel costabel at wanadoo.fr
Thu May 23 10:24:13 EDT 2002



Bruno Voisin wrote:
[]
> I don't know whether this would suit your needs, but have you tried
> another MATLAB clone, called SciLab (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab)?
> There is an OS X version, but the ReadMe says "It requires a proper
> environment an Xwindow server environment (XFree)".
> 
> That being said, I've never used it, I'm sticking to Mathematica for all
> my computations so far. I heard about SciLab because computer
> administrators here are publicizing it as a free alternative to MATLAB.

Both Scilab and octave have been ported to OSX by the Fink project. In
their atlas versions they are pretty fast (Atlas creates some automatic
optimisations for G4 in the basic linear algebra subroutines). 

-- 
Martin

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