numpy-discussion

[Numpy-discussion] visual programming

[Mathew Y. <my...@jp...>]

semi off topic.
Does anyone know of any good visual programming tools? Forever ago, I 
used to use something called Khoros for image processing and I found it 
very useful. You connect boxes which represent different processing 
steps. At about the same time, there was something similar to Khoros 
from SGI. Explorer was its name, I think.

Anybody out there use this sort of thing? Matlab doesn't offer it, 
right? Nor matplotlib?

Mathew

Re: [Numpy-discussion] visual programming

[Les S. <sch...@op...>]

Mathew Yeates wrote:
> semi off topic.
> Does anyone know of any good visual programming tools? Forever ago, I 
> used to use something called Khoros for image processing and I found it 
> very useful. You connect boxes which represent different processing 
> steps. 
>   

if i recall correctly, there is still a version of Khoros floating
around that you can compile under Linux. i've done it several time, but
it WAS a while ago.

Les Schaffer

Re: [Numpy-discussion] visual programming

[A. M. A. <per...@gm...>]

On 18/09/06, Mathew Yeates <my...@jp...> wrote:
> semi off topic.
> Does anyone know of any good visual programming tools? Forever ago, I
> used to use something called Khoros for image processing and I found it
> very useful. You connect boxes which represent different processing
> steps. At about the same time, there was something similar to Khoros
> from SGI. Explorer was its name, I think.
>
> Anybody out there use this sort of thing? Matlab doesn't offer it,
> right? Nor matplotlib?
>
> Mathew

I doubt it's what you're looking for, but PD and GEM are a visual
programming environment, oriented towards music, audio signal
processing, 2D and 3D video. (They're related to Max and jMax, which
do some of the same things.)

A. M. Archibald

Re: [Numpy-discussion] visual programming

[Charles R H. <cha...@gm...>]

On 9/18/06, Mathew Yeates <my...@jp...> wrote:
>
> semi off topic.
> Does anyone know of any good visual programming tools? Forever ago, I
> used to use something called Khoros for image processing and I found it
> very useful. You connect boxes which represent different processing
> steps. At about the same time, there was something similar to Khoros
> from SGI. Explorer was its name, I think.
>
> Anybody out there use this sort of thing? Matlab doesn't offer it,
> right? Nor matplotlib?
>
> Mathew


There have been several presentations at the scipy conferences about a
visual programming environment for molecular visualization. You might check
and see if the presentations are available on the scipy site. Lets see, name
is ViPEr, and some papers can be found under publications at this site:
http://www.scripps.edu/%7Esanner/python/index.html
I have no idea how generally useful the framework is.

Chuck

Re: [Numpy-discussion] visual programming

[Bryan C. <br...@co...>]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:29 -0700, Mathew Yeates wrote:
> semi off topic.
> Does anyone know of any good visual programming tools? Forever ago, I 
> used to use something called Khoros for image processing and I found it 
> very useful. You connect boxes which represent different processing 
> steps. At about the same time, there was something similar to Khoros 
> from SGI. Explorer was its name, I think.

Looking at the Khoros commercial site (now AccuSoft), it looks like a
more polished version of OpenDX (which also offers a visual programming
system). See http://www.opendx.org/index2.php 

The problem with OpenDX is the cr*ppy Motif-based GUI (particularly so
if you use Windows). I prefer VTK (www.vtk.org) which offers similar
concepts (pipeline execution of data filtering/visualisation blocks) but
in a programmatic form based on python (which we like...). 

BC


> 
> Anybody out there use this sort of thing? Matlab doesn't offer it, 
> right? Nor matplotlib?
> 
> Mathew
> 
> 
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