[Scilab-Dev] Scilab/SCIAO

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Well, we are exchanging on a mailing list. That means that the reply you
send to Samuel, I received it too (and a couple hundred people also).
Please don't flood ;)


On 08/03/2013 18:21, Luis Acevedo wrote:
> Hello Sylvestre
> As I said to Samuel ,
> 
>   Yes I have thought the same than you.
>   It is important to have an optical module in Scilab , optics are becoming
> very important nowadays.
> 
>  I see that you know SCIAO and If it can be implemented with more functions
> using Xcos.
>  With your advice MSDOS will handle the new versions of Scilab, also as you
> said would be good if some people can revisit the SCIAO module upgrade it
> with new 
> Optical physics as diffraction and so on.
>  
> Well as soon as submit  the phD thesis in optics I will work in SCIAO and
> implement . I will make a call asking for helpers.
> 
> Thanks a lot, Regards
> 
> Luis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev-bounces at lists.scilab.org [mailto:dev-bounces at lists.scilab.org] On
> Behalf Of Sylvestre Ledru
> Sent: 08 March 2013 17:09
> To: dev at lists.scilab.org
> Subject: Re: [Scilab-Dev] Scilab/SCIAO
> 
> On 08/03/2013 18:07, Samuel Gougeon wrote:
>> Hello Luis,
>>
>> Yes indeed, it is a very interesting module. There is no optics 
>> devices in Modelica/Coselica, so it would be a very useful 
>> complementary part to Coselica in Xcos.
>>
>> I started to upgrade SCIAO last summer 2012 on my side.
>> But the module must be completely revisited, since Scilab 5.4 (and 
>> Xcos) is very (very) far from Scilab 4.1.2 (and Scicos).
>>
>> The MSDOS stuff and other minor upgrades in macros and demos are OK, 
>> and when reorganizing directories to match the toolbox_skeleton, the 
>> priority was to rebuild the help.  I stopped here (without finishing).
>> Afterwards, SCIAO will need to be Xcos-revisited, and then fully 
>> recompiled (it has some gateways for primitives in C++), with often 
>> plateform-dependent compiling options and other hard things to be 
>> fixed.
>>
>> For the moment, i gave up the job. But i am happy to read that someone 
>> else could work about :-)
> Maybe we could great a project on the forge and import the beginning of the
> work that you have done ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sylvestre
> 
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