Re: [Perldl] IDL thing

2006-06-28 Thread Karl Glazebrook
On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Doug Hunt wrote: 2) Troubles with the xwin driver and interactive use in general. isn't this is plplot developer issue rather than PDL? ___ Perldl mailing list Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu

Re: [Perldl] PDL for Mac OS X 10.4.8

2006-11-02 Thread Karl Glazebrook
SciKarl is my one click kitchen-sink installer for the Mac, It's still beta though. Perhaps we could get it linked to on the web site? Karl On 03/11/2006, at 9:17 AM, Derek Lamb wrote: Lakshmanan, If you found this mailing list I assume you found the PDL website: pdl.perl.org . From

Re: [Perldl] Plotting with a condition

2006-12-14 Thread Karl Glazebrook
points($x-where($y5000), $y-where($y5000)); On 14/12/2006, at 8:39 PM, Robert Cumming wrote: Is there a nice pdl way to do something like this? points ($x,$y) if ($y 5000); # doesn't work In other words, I want to plot only points whose coordinates fulfil a certain condition. This is a

Re: [Perldl] Plotting with a condition

2006-12-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook
cool! didn't know that one On 15/12/2006, at 3:42 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: On Dec 14, 2006, at 4:48 AM, Karl Glazebrook wrote: points($x-where($y5000), $y-where($y5000)); Inspired by your query and KBG's response, I took a look at the online docs for where and cooked up the equivalent

Re: [Perldl] benchmark

2007-01-11 Thread Karl Glazebrook
On 12/01/2007, at 3:05 AM, zentara wrote: Hi, this sort of interested me too, so I made a couple of programs that you can run yourself, to test. I have a 2Ghz Athlon, and 1 Gig ram, so your results may vary, and the scripts may need to be modified. The idea is to make an array of 50,000,000

Re: [Perldl] perl

2007-02-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook
yes! On 16/02/2007, at 10:30 AM, Phuong, Guy wrote: Hi I have submitted my questions/problems to the mailing list however have still got no reply yet. Do I just wait patiently until they get answered or is the reply posted somewhere? Regards Guy

Re: [Perldl] How to access my fortran library routines in PDL

2007-02-20 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Message- From: Xavier Calbet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:15 AM To: Karl Glazebrook Cc: Phuong, Guy; perldl@jach.hawaii.edu Subject: Re: [Perldl] perl Hello Guy, Most of the questions addressed in this mailing list are answered. I have always found

Re: [Perldl] Can't use PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT

2007-02-22 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Do you have an older version of libpgplot without pgarro() routine? Since it is called in PGPLOT.xs any attempt to link with it will fail On 22/02/2007, at 4:00 PM, Adam Ginsburg wrote: Can't load 'blib/arch/auto/PGPLOT/PGPLOT.so' for module PGPLOT: blib/arch/auto/PGPLOT/PGPLOT.so: undefined

Re: [Perldl] cross-correlation

2007-02-22 Thread Karl Glazebrook
check out fftconvolve and convolveND On 22/02/2007, at 5:21 PM, Trevor Carey-Smith wrote: Hi Renato, I don't think there is a pdl function for cross-correlation. Attached is a pretty basic sub-routine which should do the job. It is based on the IDL cross-correlation function. Cheers, Trevor

[Perldl] Acknowledging PDL

2007-08-23 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I was asked how to acknowledge PDL. I thought we should put some standard recommendations on the web site What do people think of the following? Karl From: Marcin Sawicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23 August 2007 6:17:03 AM To: Karl Glazebrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PDL acknowledgment Hi

Re: [Perldl] Must run code twice...?

2007-11-23 Thread Karl Glazebrook
works fine for me Last login: Fri Nov 23 08:44:47 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! [~] % cat stuff.pl $x = sequence(10); wcols $x, 'tmp.dat'; 1; [~] % perldl Loaded PDL v2.4.3 perldl do 'stuff.pl' perldl #cat tmp.dat 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 perldl On 23/11/2007, at 7:42 PM, Xavier Calbet wrote:

Re: [Perldl] Problems with PDL::Gaussian

2007-12-02 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Rob, now we have a new website would you do us a big favour and update the 'PDL for Windows' info on the web pages? This perhaps could be a link to a 'howto' on the wiki? Thanks Karl Did you install using PPM ? If so, you probably installed the PPM package available from the

Re: [Perldl] Getting oriented...

2007-12-12 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Thanks for your thoughts. I expect you are right we'll need a number of different linux builds which would be impossible for just me to track. I think the onus here is on the linux users to get together and try and work something like this out. If someone can provide the basic scripts to

Re: [Perldl] Q: Speed of piddles compared to perlish matrices

2008-02-10 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Hello January If you write things in the same element by element way as regular Perl then PDL will be even slower. set() and at() are functions of last resort. The idea of PDL is to use fast internal functions for vector ops. What you want can be accomplished in one line with PDL's

[Perldl] Fwd: scikarl for leopard

2008-08-11 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I am forwarding this in case it is of interest. (How to get SciKarl running under Leopard with a fresh install - upgrades are just fine) Karl Begin forwarded message: From: Karl Glazebrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11 August 2008 9:51:07 PM To: Roberto Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: [Perldl] standard normal CDF

2008-09-29 Thread Karl Glazebrook
grandom() inbuilt function (PDL::Primitive) Calls ndrti.c so go and read the source code to see if it is good enough for your needs. It has always been good enough for mine but then I don't need high-end randomness. Karl On 30/09/2008, at 8:34 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: PDL::GSLSF::ERF

Re: [Perldl] lgamma wierdness!

2008-10-01 Thread Karl Glazebrook
It does seem to work if you say lgamma(80.0) etc Some kind of typing problem in the underlying routine? Karl On 01/10/2008, at 3:33 PM, Steve Cicala wrote: I'm getting some odd output from the lgamma function: it seems to be oddly re-setting itself when fetching the log-gamma function

Re: [Perldl] Plotting Large Numbers of Points

2009-05-21 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Try pgpnts() and not one at a time (sym = 1 or -1 helps). 250K should not be too bad. A better method would be to plot density contours and them add points only in the outliers, this would require a clever subroutine to be written though. Karl On 22/05/2009, at 7:44 AM, David Donovan

[Perldl] Snow leopard

2009-09-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Does anyone happen to know whether a scikarl install keeps working on snow leopard or whether it needs a recompile ? I just don't want any surprises! Karl ___ Perldl mailing list Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu

Re: [Perldl] Snow leopard

2009-09-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
works fine. I presume, though without testing, that the same will be true for scikarl. Ben On 4 Sep 2009, at 17:53, Karl Glazebrook wrote: Does anyone happen to know whether a scikarl install keeps working on snow leopard or whether it needs a recompile ? I just don't want any surprises

[Perldl] SciKarl on Snow Leopard

2009-09-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Hello All Here is a quick hack I worked out to get SciKarl working on Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard installs a new perl (5.10) which is binary incompatible but the old perl is thankfully still there. So is PDL. (If you previously had Leopard/SciKarl and just did an upgrade.) You can test

Re: [Perldl] SciKarl on Snow Leopard

2009-09-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook
You can set an environment variable to decide what perl OSX will run. Personally, I just build my own. Tim On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Karl Glazebrook wrote: Hello All Here is a quick hack I worked out to get SciKarl working on Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard installs a new perl (5.10) which

Re: [Perldl] SciKarl on Snow Leopard

2009-09-16 Thread Karl Glazebrook
what about FITS reading and the nature of all the ints and longs etc ? Karl On 15/09/2009, at 1:17 PM, Tim Jenness wrote: On Sep 15, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Karl Glazebrook wrote: Does 64 bit compilation work at all with PDL? Sure. I run perldl in 64-bit mode all the time. You'll need

Re: [Perldl] SciKarl on Snow Leopard

2009-09-16 Thread Karl Glazebrook
never dared do that either! Karl On 16/09/2009, at 5:50 PM, Tim Jenness wrote: No idea. But why would we expect it to be any different than running pdl on a 64-bit linux system? On Sep 16, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Karl Glazebrook wrote: what about FITS reading and the nature of all the ints

Re: [Perldl] PDL's got some 'competition'

2009-10-30 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Reference anyone? Karl On 30/10/2009, at 3:25 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: P.S. I saw a paper comparing Numpy, PDL, hand-rolled C code, and plain Perl and Python code for computing a numerical integral. Plain old Python and Perl were terribly slow, but Python had two distinct numerical

Re: [Perldl] PDL's got some 'competition'

2009-11-01 Thread Karl Glazebrook
On 31/10/2009, at 1:38 AM, P Kishor wrote: Ilya Z, author of Numeric::LL_Array, is a long time Perl developer, a rather brilliant one, and currently teaches/researches at the Cal Math dept. I feel a bit vindicated in that I was not the only one experiencing difficulty installing PDL. If Ilya

Re: [Perldl] PDL + Padre, a self-reflection

2009-11-09 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Try SciKarl Karl On 10/11/2009, at 10:11 AM, P Kishor wrote: PDL seems amazing (I have to qualify my statement with seems because I don't have enough experience with PDL yet), but is fairly difficult to get going on a Mac. The main developer(s) are not Mac users, and so, it is

Re: [Perldl] [Pdl-porters] Modularizing PDL

2009-11-10 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Hi everyone, I've come to this thread pretty late, let me interject some comments. It seems to me there are several classes of users 1) People who want to use PDL as a dependency on CPAN, for some lightweight efficient array ops. These people would want it to just build and install

Re: [Perldl] [Pdl-porters] Modularizing PDL

2009-11-11 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Just remember f2c depends on a whole slew of support routines in libf2c.a - though most of these are IO related. But there is some work between running f2c on some fortran and have a pure C code that works. Karl On 12/11/2009, at 2:39 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: Karl Glazebrook wrote: Hi

Re: [Perldl] [Pdl-porters] Modularizing PDL

2009-11-11 Thread Karl Glazebrook
OK then that sounds like a good plan! You'd have to look at the f2c output and see what other stuff might be called. Given that SLATEC has not been modified in years it's a nice case of only having to do it once. Karl On 12/11/2009, at 10:43 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: I'd much rather

Re: [Perldl] new design for PDL web-site ?

2009-11-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I'd support that - see my previous answer to Tim. What system is used? Karl On 15/11/2009, at 5:08 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Leo Lapworth recently gave serious face-lift to 3 perl web sites: http://www.perl.org/ http://dbi.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/ The Kartik Thakore updated the

Re: [Perldl] PGPLOT issue on new PDL install on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X)

2010-03-19 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Try SciKarl! Karl On 19/03/2010, at 4:57 AM, Wallace, Brad wrote: G'day All, I just received a sparkling new iMac and - of course - one of the first things I want to do is install PDL. A certain amount of frustration later (details omitted) I have reached a roadblock. Specifically,

Re: [Perldl] [Pdl-porters] default PDLLIB for PDL::AutoLoader

2010-04-05 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Seems like a good idea to me! I suppose there is a danger it might end up as a big dustbin of misc routines? Karl On 05/04/2010, at 2:40 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: Request for Comment: I typically build up PDL functionality via PDL::AutoLoader methods which allows for easy incremental

Re: [Perldl] [Pdl-porters] default PDLLIB for PDL::AutoLoader

2010-04-05 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Well I think use PDL::Autoloader is not the default? Maybe you would only get the dustbin if you turned it on and did not fiddle with your PATH? The IDL astronomy library has been a similarly useful dustbin for a number of years. Karl On 06/04/2010, at 4:55 AM, David Mertens wrote: Chris

Re: [Perldl] [Pdl-porters] default PDLLIB for PDL::AutoLoader

2010-04-06 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Absolutely and this is in the TIMTOWTDI perl philosophy. - Karl On 06/04/2010, at 11:54 AM, Chris Marshall c...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On 4/5/2010 8:14 PM, David Mertens wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Karl Glazebrook karlglazebr...@mac.com mailto:karlglazebr...@mac.com wrote: Well

Re: [Perldl] expanding a piddle

2010-04-16 Thread Karl Glazebrook
There must be a fiendish solution involving dummy() and reshape()? PDLpp is cheating! Karl On 15/04/2010, at 10:10 PM, P Kishor wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Matthew Kenworthy kenwor...@strw.leidenuniv.nl wrote: rescale2d is what you're looking for: Wow! Seriously, I didn't

Re: [Perldl] expanding a piddle

2010-04-16 Thread Karl Glazebrook
No problem. It sounded like an interesting non-trivial and stimulating challenge. I thought about it for 10 minutes and couldn't get it myself... Karl On 16/04/2010, at 7:09 AM, P Kishor wrote: consistently direct_indexing is the slowest, and clumping is the fastest. Winner of this round

Re: [Perldl] [Pdl-porters] Announcing: SciKarlv2.4.6 on sf.net for Mac OS X

2010-04-19 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Thanks Matt! (BTW see you in Leiden in June?) Karl (sent from 4200m, may contain more than the usual amount of brain-freeze) On 19/04/2010, at 3:33 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: The latest SciKarl package of PDL-2.4.6 is now available for download at the PDL sourceforge files site:

Re: [Perldl] PDL and GD

2010-04-20 Thread Karl Glazebrook
That's the magic of virtual keyboards. Is there any app on the store that gets a perl interpreter running? Karl (sent from 4200m, may contain more than the usual amount of brain-freeze) On 19/04/2010, at 8:39 PM, Frossie wrote: Karl Glazebrook wrote on April 19: The way to do

Re: [Perldl] PDL and GD

2010-04-20 Thread Karl Glazebrook
-built stuff available. A professionally maintained scientifically minded Perl installation could do something similar for PDL et al. Christian On 20/04/2010, at 6:41 PM, Karl Glazebrook wrote: That's the magic of virtual keyboards. Is there any app on the store that gets a perl

Re: [Perldl] PDL and GD

2010-04-20 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I'd recommend going nowhere near this idea! Karl (sent from 4200m, may contain more than the usual amount of brain-freeze) On 20/04/2010, at 4:40 AM, Matthew Kenworthy wrote: Another option would be to embed a complete perl inside SciKarl, but that has its own headaches! Well, I was

Re: [Perldl] which math constants for PDL?

2010-05-02 Thread Karl Glazebrook
$Mpc $yr (All defined in S.I. units and angles in radians) Created by Karl Glazebrook Mar 19th 2002 =cut package KGB::Constants; require Exporter; @ISA= qw( Exporter ); @EXPORT = qw( $Pi $deg $arcsec $k $G $h $c $e $m_p $m_e $eps_0 $mu_0 $sigma_B $M_sun $R_sun $L_sun $pc $au

Re: [Perldl] Modularizing PDL

2010-05-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I see we have a vocal new user! My PDL inbox is exploding. It sounds like there is a generic problem Daniel encountered in which if you get the PDL install wrong the first time it automatically makes it harder to install following the correct instructions. It is hard to work against

Re: [Perldl] more documentation suggestion -- cookbook

2010-05-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Moving PDL::guide and similar generic howto pods to the wiki would be my recommendation. Easier to keep them up to date and find them. They don't refer to specific function or module versions so no need to be in the distribution. Good idea! - Karl Sent from my iPad Nano On 04/05/2010, at

Re: [Perldl] MATLAB Migration Guide

2010-05-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Definitely interesting Is there an underlying C library for matplotlib? Karl Sent from my iPad On 16/05/2010, at 12:38 AM, Chris Marshall c...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Are you suggesting a PDL::Graphics::matplotlib? Interesting idea. Yes. I was thinking to use Inline::Python to create

Re: [Perldl] [Pdl-porters] Data structures - Another approach

2010-05-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Note Scalars can also store object references, obviously. Sent from my iPad On 14/05/2010, at 9:57 PM, David Mertens dcmertens.p...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe you should just give a brief overview: Perl has only three basic but powerful data types. Scalars are denoted with a $, such as

Re: [Perldl] Documentation Style Guide

2010-05-17 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I think you mean dims($A). I suspect dim() was a poorly implemented alias. Karl On 18/05/2010, at 9:52 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: I am speaking from personal experience. I wasted a lot of time tracing a bug in my PDL code and it turned out that it was because you cannot write dim($A).

Re: [Perldl] Banners for blue/white theme.

2010-05-25 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I like the static theme + rotating banner idea. Karl On 25/05/2010, at 7:36 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: Ranalli Piero piero.rana...@gmail.com wrote: I am also for a static theme, and a static banner. So far you are the first to suggest static theme + static banner. So far four

Re: [Perldl] [Pdl-porters] SciKarl and PDL build for Mac OS X

2010-07-07 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Just to second Matt's point. This is exactly right. And SciKarl will install and work without even a COMPILER. (You may scoff but that's a multi-Gb download) That said, I would expect PDL to 'perl Makefile.PL; make' on most reasonably configured perl systems, as well as obviously Apple Perl

Re: [Perldl] New PDL logo

2010-07-15 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I can't say I like any of them! Sorry. Do we need letters? Karl On 15/07/2010, at 8:29 PM, Matthew Kenworthy wrote: I really like (2), as it will scale well and look good as a favic on - the others seem fussy. Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Daniel Carrera dcarr...@gmail.com

Re: [Perldl] New PDL logo

2010-07-17 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Re democracy. I think I have earned veto power at least over the years. :-) On 18/07/2010, at 11:25 AM, P Kishor wrote: Hi, My 2 cents : I guess, in the end, if anyone's then it should be the vote of the PDL copyright holders or the original creators (the BDFLs) that matters, but perhaps

Re: [Perldl] New PDL logo

2010-07-17 Thread Karl Glazebrook
BDFL = ? On 18/07/2010, at 11:35 AM, P Kishor wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Karl Glazebrook karlglazebr...@mac.com wrote: Re democracy. I think I have earned veto power at least over the years. :-) Yes, I was thinking of exactly you when I mentioned BDFL. ;-) On 18

Re: [Perldl] Website update

2010-07-24 Thread Karl Glazebrook
HI everyone I haven't read more than a smidgen of these emails in the last week as I have been busy running a conference but I **very much** like the infinity pdl logo concept as displayed here and would be very happy with that. (the minimalist version being the official default but I like the

Re: [Perldl] Website update

2010-07-24 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Oops I see Christian has sent his own nice infinity variant and there is a download dashboard item. Never mind those comments! Karl On 25/07/2010, at 9:50 AM, Karl Glazebrook wrote: HI everyone I haven't read more than a smidgen of these emails in the last week as I have been busy

Re: [Perldl] Website ready

2010-07-30 Thread Karl Glazebrook
On 27/07/2010, at 8:02 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote: * New Mac OS install page, courtesy of P.Kishor and Matthew. I don't want to be ungrateful... but these seem a bit over-complicated? They even talk about Karma which is way past it's use by date. poppler? xpdf? what is all this stuff? Why not

Re: [Perldl] Website ready / New install page

2010-07-30 Thread Karl Glazebrook
The issue is every binary bundle needs a maintainer with access to the system in question and a virgin test system. And it's all non-trivial. Volunteers for Linux and Win32 are welcome. Though Linux might be a nightmare. Karl On 30/07/2010, at 10:20 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: Hi Chris, On

Re: [Perldl] Updating SciKarl

2010-07-30 Thread Karl Glazebrook
SciKarl does not prevent you from adding other perl modules in the usual way later on. Karl On 30/07/2010, at 10:19 PM, P Kishor wrote: On the other hand, if one makes a simple, slimmed down SciPDL for Mac, sooner or later someone will want that one custom module that is not a part of

Re: [Perldl] Ann: Request for documentation help

2010-08-02 Thread Karl Glazebrook
The photos are rather tacky. Please replace! Karl On 03/08/2010, at 3:41 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote: Hello, As promised, I have updated the website with an announcement requesting help with reviewing PDL documentation in preparation for the upcoming 2.4.7 release. http://pdl.perl.org

Re: [Perldl] [Pdl-porters] Mac OS X testers for PDL-2.4.7_pre1

2010-08-24 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Sorry it's in my queue! I will try and do that soon, busy time. Any last patches? Karl On 24/08/2010, at 4:45 PM, Tim Jenness wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Christian Soeller c.soel...@auckland.ac.nz wrote: I just had to build PDL-2.4.7 for my work and also came across the

[Perldl] Visualization project

2010-08-24 Thread Karl Glazebrook
for more details. thanks Karl Prof. Karl Glazebrook Deputy Director Centre for Astrophysics Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology Contact: +61-3-9214-4384 k...@astro.swin.edu.au ___ Perldl mailing list Perldl

Re: [Perldl] non-rectangular selection from 2D piddle

2010-09-09 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Folk, I wrote a PDL vectorized version of the 'points in a polygon' program a few years ago for my own use. [BTW Matt the problem was selecting points in a area of a color-color diagram] Here is the code. i/o are all vectors. Read it and weep :-) Karl # Test points tx,ty to be in a polygon

Re: [Perldl] non-rectangular selection from 2D piddle

2010-09-14 Thread Karl Glazebrook
On 11/09/2010, at 2:35 AM, P Kishor wrote: accuracy. The point-in-poly approach seems to get tripped by and ignore vertical and horizontal lines. Karl's and my both naive and not-so solutions produce identical results as they are all point-in-poly approaches. I am not sure I understand this

Re: [Perldl] PDL vs IDL

2011-01-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
, what is pgperl? Was that the precursor to PDL? Daniel. On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Karl Glazebrook karlglazebr...@mac.com wrote: In a word - Yes. I wrote pgperl in the mid-90's and also used IDL intermittently for work. I found IDL powerful in abilities but to be an awful language

Re: [Perldl] PDL vs IDL

2011-01-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
On 04/01/2011, at 12:03 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: and I've heard from a friend that image processing is one of the strong points of IDL (my friend was telling me why she wants to do her thesis with IDL instead of MATLAB). Astronomy is full of IDL users (including some of my own students it

Re: [Perldl] installing PGPLOT for a demo

2011-02-01 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Not yet! On 02/02/2011, at 11:02 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote: On Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Karl Glazebrook wrote: BTW I am teaching a one hour PDL course to some unsuspecting astronomers in Perth on Feb 15. Do you have the course prepared, or ya gonna wing it since, y'know

[Perldl] AAS — Job Register - Senior Lectureship in Visualization researcher/astronomer

2011-02-03 Thread Karl Glazebrook
could forward this to anyone who they think might be interested and a good match. We are a pretty good place to work! (Any PDL is optional). It's a permanent continuing position, we don't have tenure in Australian Universities but this is our nearest equivalent. Karl Karl

Re: [Perldl] Wanted: nifty one-liners for PDL demo this aft

2011-02-05 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I am glad. Perhaps you can post what you did somewhere? KArl On 05/02/2011, at 10:15 AM, P Kishor wrote: I am happy to report that the PDL demo was a resounding success. There were about 7 folks familiar with Perl in a room of about 30. There were universal hs and ahhhs when I did the

Re: [Perldl] Question about/problem with PDL::NiceSlice

2011-05-29 Thread Karl Glazebrook
My main irritation with NiceSlice is it does not work in the debugger. Anyone know a solution to that? Karl On 29/05/2011, at 1:59 AM, David Mertens wrote: Zeno - Others have addressed many of your questions. However, there is one bit that I felt could get a little more attention: On

Re: [Perldl] demo bad2 now *huge* /xs window

2011-09-05 Thread Karl Glazebrook
This is the PGPLOT_XW_WIDTH environment variable My setting is 0.3, which means the window width is 30% of the display width Karl On 30/08/2011, at 5:25 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: Trying the PGPLOT demos in the pdl2 shell, the latest PDL-2.4.9_008 version now starts up the plotting window

Re: [Perldl] new PDL::NiceSlice engine (re. sf.net bug #3018731)

2011-10-14 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Any chance this will allow NiceSlice to work in debugger? A long standing curse of mine... Karl On 13/10/2011, at 1:58 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: If you wish to try the new PDL::NiceSlice engine, it is now available in the CHM/PDL-2.4.9_009.tar.gz CPAN developers release and via

Re: [Perldl] PDL book live for 2.4.10?

2011-10-17 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Hi Matt, Sounds good, I volunteer to do 1 chapter if others also do. How about we collect volunteers here, and they you marshall them? I agree that sounds a lot easier than latex. How did you make the PDF? -Karl Sent from an iProduct On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:21 AM, Matthew Kenworthy

Re: [Perldl] setting PGplot options for laptops with wide screens

2011-11-01 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Have a look at the pgpaper() function to set explicit axis ratios Karl On 21/10/2011, at 11:49 PM, zentara wrote: Hi, Briefly, my PDL PGplots are stretched in the X direction. I'm hoping someone has seen this before, and knows the correct option to set in .perldlrc Attached is a

Re: [Perldl] Fwd: new PDL::NiceSlice engine (re. sf.net bug #3018731)

2011-11-01 Thread Karl Glazebrook
it works and if it seems stable enough we could consider adding it to the distribution. Maybe even with something clever like 'pdl -d' calling it under the hood... Cheers, Chris On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:55 PM, chm devel.chm...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/15/2011 5:58 PM, Karl Glazebrook wrote

Re: [Perldl] SciPDL 2.4.9 for Lion - help with static libraries

2011-11-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Hi Matt I think I have it working, this is what I did - - 1) I build pgplot, (simply changing g77 - gfortran in the conf file) but edited Makefile so as not to build libpgplot.so [kept giving me errors when it tried to link the demos with it anyway... go figure] - 2) got rid of

Re: [Perldl] statsover definitions

2011-11-16 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Agreed ADEV has to be fixed (in code). It has the wrong unit dimensions for one thing Karl On 16/11/2011, at 10:19 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: Hi Derek- The fix you refer to was for an inconsistent calculation between the algorithm used with badvals and that used without badvals. I have

Re: [Perldl] standard terminology proposal

2012-01-13 Thread Karl Glazebrook
shape sounds sensible to me. What about dummy dimensions ? Karl On 06/01/2012, at 2:04 PM, chm wrote: I've just pushed a minimal PDL::shape method and sub to the latest PDL git. Please report any problems. It is basically pdl($piddle-dims) so identical except for output type: pdl vs

Re: [Perldl] Spatially correlated random variables

2012-05-24 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Stefan, What is meant by 'spatially correlated random variables'? Correlated how? You could make a random image, and then smooth it and the pixels would have nice small scale correlations but that's not what you are asking I expect. If you define a covariance matrix how you like - you can then

[Perldl] PhD scholarships at Swinburne

2012-08-07 Thread Karl Glazebrook
://astronomy.swin.edu.au/study/phdprojects.html I'd appreciate this being passed on to any interested parties (e.g. undergraduate students etc.). My Work contact details are below. Use of PDL is not mandatory but would be welcomed. Now back to your normal programming...(sic) Karl Karl

Re: [Perldl] Is there a perl tool like ipython notebook?

2013-01-02 Thread Karl Glazebrook
David Mertens showed a nice demo of something like this he built using Prima. In particular he had an impressive youtube video demoiing it David can you post the link? Karl On 19/12/2012, at 6:49 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: I would like to see a more integrated PDL user environment. The

Re: [Perldl] selecting annuli in an image

2013-01-02 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Or rvals() On 25/12/2012, at 1:31 PM, Tim Haines wrote: Hello, all. I am currently working with some simple 2D data, and I would like to replace all of the pixel values lying along the same circular annulus with their median. Currently, I am doing the following: my $image =

[Perldl] Circle square

2013-01-23 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Any computer graphics experts know the optimal way to calculate the area overlap of a circle (x,y,R) with a square (x1,x2,L) ? C or PDL code accepted! Karl ___ Perldl mailing list Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu

Re: [Perldl] Circle square

2013-01-24 Thread Karl Glazebrook
wrote: hi, there is good answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/622287/area-of-intersection-between-circle-and-rectangle On 23 January 2013 11:43, Karl Glazebrook karlglazebr...@mac.com wrote: Any computer graphics experts know the optimal way to calculate the area overlap of a circle (x,y

Re: [Perldl] A common, working plotting package?

2013-02-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Hi everyone Surely there must be a modern C-callable (and implemented! No java or python please) plotting library which supports objects, transparency, GUI embedding,PDF etc., looks attractive, is cross-platform and is efficient for large datasets? Karl On 31/01/2013, at 7:12 PM, Timothy

Re: [Perldl] A common, working plotting package?

2013-03-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
If GNUplot can plot a million points or a 4096^2 image with a delay 1s and no memory disaster then that would be fast enough for me. I wish there was a better solution Karl On 04/03/2013, at 2:04 AM, Henning Glawe wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:04:45PM +1100, Karl Glazebrook wrote: I

Re: [Perldl] A common, working plotting package?

2013-03-07 Thread Karl Glazebrook
= shift; use Time::HiRes q/time/; $x = random($n); $y = random($n); $w=gpwin(x11); $t0 = time; $w-plot(with='dots',$x,$y); $t1 = time; return $t1-$t0; } points-performance.png On Mar 4, 2013, at 7:58 PM, Karl Glazebrook karlglazebr

Re: [Perldl] astronomy Question

2013-03-07 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Stellar relative velocities are only tens of km/s which are c. Most naked eye stars are only within a few thousand light years. If you corrected to now I think the sky would look pretty much the same. Einstein might take an issue with defining now being particularly useful - Karl On

Re: [Perldl] A common, working plotting package?

2013-03-07 Thread Karl Glazebrook
My thoughts on the main question - I like PGPLOT because it is fast. Python's matplotlib is pretty but seems to bog down quite quickly with large data sets (it would be interesting to add that to the plotting speed plot but I don't have the python skills) - Philosophically I like the idea of

Re: [Perldl] looking for volunteers to support Mac OS X

2013-05-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
If Matt could do SciPDL and Mark could go MacPorts would that cover it? Karl On 05/05/2013, at 3:53 AM, Chris Marshall devel.chm...@gmail.com wrote: That would be great! I believe there already is a macports done for an earlier release of PDL. Updating it to the latest should be mostly

[Perldl] Movember 2013

2013-11-07 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Hi PDL people, Apologies for the spam but it is in a good cause and I think I have earned the right for this particular list! I'm taking part in Movember as my daughters dared me too grow a moustache (I've never done that) and it's all in a good cause (men's health charity) and fun. I started

Re: [Perldl] PDL / PGPLOT on Mac OS X Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Hi Nick Like every version of OS X it seems the perl version has changed again, it's now perl 5.16. Unfortunately these version changes means PDL etc need to be recompiled! [perldl list: has anyone experimented with just renaming the /Library directories?] I am not on Mavericks yet but I

Re: [Perldl] PDL / PGPLOT on Mac OS X Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Karl Glazebrook
On 20/11/2013, at 1:48 AM, Nick Wright nick.nwri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Thanks for the quick reply. I've given your steps a try: (1) install the latest SciPDL (NOT SciKarl as this dates back to Lion or something) which works with perl 5.12. Note you seem to be several versions back

Re: [Perldl] show of hands for PDL users

2013-12-18 Thread Karl Glazebrook
for python Karl Karl Glazebrook, University Distinguished Professor Centre for Astrophysics Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology Contact: +61-3-9214-4384 kglazebr...@swin.edu.au astronomy.swin.edu.au/karl @karlglazebrook

Re: [Perldl] show of hands for PDL users

2013-12-29 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Oops. I mean 1996 :-)!!! Has it been that long? On 19/12/2013, at 12:16 PM, Karl Glazebrook karlglazebr...@mac.com wrote: Since 2006 when I created it. :-) - What PDL version do you use? ___ Perldl mailing list Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu http

Re: [Perldl] show of hands for PDL users

2013-12-31 Thread Karl Glazebrook
A smug of python programmers. :-) On 31/12/2013, at 11:32 PM, David Mertens dcmertens.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Vikas N Kumar vi...@cpan.org wrote: On 12/30/2013 08:31 PM, Karl Glazebrook wrote: Here's a joke I like - what's the collective noun for a group

Re: [Perldl] IPerl language kernel for IPython notebook

2014-07-10 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I thought with iPython someone could just run a server to which others could connect to play with a notebook? Karl On 10 Jul 2014, at 2:26 am, Zakariyya Mughal zaki.mug...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-07-08 at 20:37:53 -0700, Karl Glazebrook wrote: Hi, There isn't exactly a live version

Re: [Perldl] citing PDL

2014-10-29 Thread Karl Glazebrook
= {Karl Glazebrook and Frossie Economou}, title ={PDL: The Perl Data Language}, journal = {Dr.\ Dobb's Journal}, year = 1997, url = {http://www.ddj.com/184410442}, volume = {Software Careers Special Issue}, } On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:47 AM

Re: [Perldl] Term::ReadLine::Gnu on OS X

2015-02-02 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I used libreadline-6.3 ./configure --prefix=/Users/karl/Downloads/tmp1 make # etc and Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.25 # (avoid i386 in some Makefiles) setenv ARCHFLAGS '-arch x86_64’ perl Makefile.PL --prefix=/Users/karl/Downloads/tmp1 to get SciPDL built. Don't ask me why I needed the ARCHFLAGS or to

Re: [Perldl] Permissions for the PDL namespace

2015-02-02 Thread Karl Glazebrook
to Chris Marshall? Cheers, Neil ___ Perldl mailing list Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl Karl Glazebrook Director Distinguished Professor Centre for Astrophysics Supercomputing

[Perldl] Impact

2015-02-10 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Hi there Do we have any estimate of the impact/reach of PDL? Has anyone tried a paper count? Karl ___ Perldl mailing list Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl

Re: [Perldl] Perldl list moving to sf.net

2015-02-21 Thread Karl Glazebrook
It's disappointing it's one of those lame lists that emails your password back to you in plain text can we complain? Karl On 16 Feb 2015, at 9:03 am, Chris Marshall devel.chm...@gmail.com wrote: Perldl list members- The current host for the perldl mailing list is going away at the

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