Archive for January, 2010
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
3rd Annual IDL User Group Meeting
ITT VIS announced the 3rd Annual IDL User Group Meeting scheduled for February 24 (with hands-on seminars on February 23) in Boulder, CO at LASP. Topics include: Atmospheric and Cryospheric Analyses Climate Modeling General Physics and Mathematics Graphics and Visualization GPU Processing Cluster Processing Graphics Enhancements with IDL New Functionality in the IDL Core Language [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in IDL,News by Michael Galloy
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Top posts of 2009
Here are the most popular posts of 2009: Apple Keynote templates for posters Overview of flow visualization in IDL Path management IDL roadmap Google Earth user function for ENVI 1RM: Mac OS X Dashboard widget Processing with Javascript Regular expressions Response to Why IDL Sucks A simple 3D object graphics example Only one of these [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Admin by Michael Galloy
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
rIDL development
The first goal for my rIDL project was to completely emulate of all of command line IDL’s functionality. Once that is implemented, then extra cool stuff can be added. I’m getting close this goal (of course, I couldn’t help myself and there is some extra cool stuff in there already). I have addressed two items [...]
14 Comments » - Posted in IDL,rIDL by Michael Galloy
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
SciPy 2009
Proceedings of the 8th Python in Science Conference are now available. I would love to have something like this for IDL. Link via Gaël Varoquaux.
1 Comment » - Posted in Python by Michael Galloy
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
GMT color table catalog
Here is a catalog of the color tables from cpt-city that can be read into IDL with VIS_CPT2CT that I wrote about previously.
No Comments » - Posted in IDL,Visualization by Michael Galloy
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Homebrew
Homebrew is a packaging system for Mac OS X, similar to Fink or MacPorts. I have used both Fink and MacPorts, but do not like having an entirely separate system of installs. Homebrew can install in /usr/local like a normal, well-behaved installation. I installed Homebrew in /usr/local with the recommended commands, except I used sudo [...]
