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- From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
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- Subject: IDL -- Anyone Familar With It?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.025609.7284@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 02:56:09 GMT
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- A colleague of mine recently received an Indigo and wanted to
- start writing data analysis programs using a fairly portable
- and high-level language. The data involves optical measurements
- of nerve cell activity in simple invertebrate brains (ganglia).
- On a suggestion, he has started using IDL (Independent Data Language?)
- and seems pleased with it so far.
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- I'm not familar with IDL, so I would appreciate hearing anything
- good or bad about the product. How similar or different is it from
- SGI's Explorer or Inventor products? Since it appears to be X (Motif?)
- based, could one use IDL with OpenGL or is that still an open question ;-)
- How much overhead does IDL extract from the system? My colleague
- would like to generate real-time animations and my concern is that
- IDL might slow things down much more than writing code in straight gl.
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- Thanks :)
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- "Is this the party to | David M. Senseman (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu)
- whom I am speaking?" | Brain Research Laboratory
- --Ernestine | The University of Texas at San Antonio
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