FreeMat
FreeMat is a free
environment for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data
processing. It is similar to commercial systems such as MATLAB
from
Mathworks, and IDL from Research Systems, but is Open Source.
It supports many MATLAB
functions and some IDL functionality.
It also features codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran
code, further parallel distributed algorithm development (via MPI), and
some extended volume and 3D visualization capabilities.
FreeMat is chartered to go beyond MATLAB
to include features
such as a
codeless interface to external C/C++/FORTRAN code, parallel/distributed
algorithm development (via MPI), and advanced volume and 3D
visualization capabilities.
Features include:
- FreeMat supports the vast majority of MATLAB's features
including:
- N-dimensional array manipulation (by default, N is
limited to 6)
- Support for 8,16, 32, and 64 bit integer types (signed
and
unsigned), 32 and 64 bit floating point types, and 64 and 128 bit
complex types.
- Built in arithmetic for manipulation of all supported
data types.
- Support for solving linear systems of equations via the
divide operators.
- Eigenvalue and singular value decompositions
- Full control structure support (including, for, while,
break, continue, etc.)
- 2D plotting and image display
- Heterogeneous array types (called "cell arrays" in
MATLAB-speak) fully supported
- Full support for dynamic structure arrays
- Arbitrary-size FFT support
- Pass-by-reference support (an IDL feature)
- Keyword support (an IDL feature)
- Codeless interface to external C/C++/FORTRAN code
- Native Windows support
- Native sparse matrix support
- Function pointers (eval and feval are fully supported)
- Classes, operator overloading
- 3D Plotting and visualization via OpenGL
- Parallel processing with MPI (in the FreeMat development
versions)
- Handle-based graphics
- Just In Time compiler
- Compatibility with Matlab (over 366 compatibility tests
pass)
- Dynamic linking with BLAS
- Vectorized fprintf, sprintf, fscanf, sscanf functions
- Code profiler
- Ability to handle huge arrays (more than 2GB) when
compiled under 64 bit OS
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