On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Martin Helm <mar...@mhelm.de> wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. November 2011, 15:23:28 schrieb Olaf Till: > >> What would be really useful IMHO would be converting the >> representation of a function in Maxima into octave code. E.g. one >> could create a system of ODEs in Maxima with some standard procedure, >> pipe it through a converter and immediately use it in Octave for >> simulation. This could probably yield part of the functionality some >> (nonfree) software for mechanical simulation offers. >> >> Olaf >> > Such feature would probably be a good feature of maxima itself, which already > provides for example the fortran() function to output fortran code. > I already thought about an matlab/octave command, but my lisp knowledge is a > bit too rusty at the moment to start coding something like that (but I have to > admit that I think lisp is a very good language to achieve this and since you > can add lisp functions to maxima I see a certain chance to make that work). > Since I use myself maxima and octave I would be interested to work on that, > but not before the new year starts. >
Olaf, Martin, This is indeed my motivating objective...Maxima and Sage. Of course any of those languages can offer Octave output. but since I am more proficient with Octave and python. I prefer to call Maxima and Sage from Octave and read their output and convert it to functions. @Olaf: for Maxima I developed a function that writes the equations of motion of a planar Kinematic chain. Now it is time to convert it to ODE compatible .m file. However, I think that without much difficulty we could anticipate the "generate M-code" feature for figures. That is, prepare the ground for future development in that direction. I have some basic functions that I use for interpolating data (http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Output-function-td3847506.html#a3847624) that I will use in many other programs and they can produce a handle to the function or a file with the function in it. The only code generating routine I have is this one (veeeeerrrry primitive) http://agora.panocha.org.mx/snippet/HbQG/. @Julio: I had two students doing evolutionary code generation in Java. I guess the same can easily be done in Octave. Indeed quine programs with Octave in mind would be great. Thanks! -- M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal ----- PhD Student University of Zürich http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
