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Here you can find resources that will help to find a good final project:
 
Here you can find resources that will help to find a good final project:
  
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[[Media:AmSci2013Hayes.pdf | Crinkly curves, fractals]]<br>
 
[[Media:AmSci2013Hayes.pdf | Crinkly curves, fractals]]<br>
 
[[Media:SciAm2000Bonabeau.pdf| Swarming ants, a new optimization algorithm]] <br>
 
[[Media:SciAm2000Bonabeau.pdf| Swarming ants, a new optimization algorithm]] <br>
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== Software ==
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Our labs and homework use MATLAB, there are several free matlab 'clones' available
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* [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave] is commonly declared as a matlab clone, but I find that the octave team has dropped the ball because their framework is very complicated to compile and seem to fail on modern MacOS systems.
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* [http://www.scilab.org SciLab] works on Linux/Windows/Mac and is decently fast on large matrices, this is my preferred matlab clone
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* [http://freemat.sourceforge.net FreeMat] is another matlab clone, on my MacOS10.8 it looked nice but was very slow plotting 8000 points and stalled a few times (I may have been just too impatient).

Revision as of 06:57, 18 September 2013

Project

Here you can find resources that will help to find a good final project:

John Burkardt's list of potential projects
Self-avoiding walks
Folding pseudoproteins
Multicore computation
Matching, holographic algorithm, NP-hard, NP-complete
Bird flocking behavior simulation
A ball in N-Dimension
Crinkly curves, fractals
Swarming ants, a new optimization algorithm

Software

Our labs and homework use MATLAB, there are several free matlab 'clones' available

  • Octave is commonly declared as a matlab clone, but I find that the octave team has dropped the ball because their framework is very complicated to compile and seem to fail on modern MacOS systems.
  • SciLab works on Linux/Windows/Mac and is decently fast on large matrices, this is my preferred matlab clone
  • FreeMat is another matlab clone, on my MacOS10.8 it looked nice but was very slow plotting 8000 points and stalled a few times (I may have been just too impatient).