Projects tagged ‘science’

gnuplot plots 2d and 3d graphs, from a data file or with a formula. It has an interactive mode with online help, or it can be used non-interactively. gnuplot does function fitting to data sets, and it ... [More] does output to many terminals, among which are PostScript, X11 display, PNG, and GIF (via the old gd library). [Less]

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets and nebulae, and has many other features including multiple panoramic landscapes, fog ... [More] , light pollution simulation and a built-in scripting engine. Stellarium comes with a star catalogue of about 600 thousand stars and it is possible to download extra catalogues with up to 210 million stars. Stellarium has multiple sky cultures - see the constellations from the traditions of Polynesian, Inuit, Navajo, Korean, Lakota, Egyptian and Chinese astronomers, as well as the traditional Western constellations. It is also possible to visit other planets in the solar system - see what the sky looked like to the Apollo astronauts, or what the rings of Saturn looks like from Titan. [Less]

Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for ... [More] performing other numerical experiments. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. [Less]

Celestia is an OpenGL-based 3D space simulation for Unix and Win32 that lets you travel through the solar system, to the stars, and even beyond the galaxy. Visit over 100,000 stars, 100 solar system bodies, and all known extrasolar planets.

Maxima is a Common Lisp implementation of MIT's Macsyma system for computer based algebra. It features plotting over the network via netmath, computations over the network, extensive testing on a ... [More] large array of problems, a source level debugger for maxima code, ease of extension in fundamentally new ways, access to Common Lisp and portability to many systems. [Less]

Sage is mathematical software, very much in the same vein as Matlab, MAGMA, Maple, and Mathematica. Unlike these systems, every component of Sage is GPL-compatible. The interpretaive language of Sage ... [More] is Python, a mainstream programming language. Use Sage for studying a huge range of mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, and exact linear algebra. It is available for download from sagemath.org and its mirrors in source or binary form. If you have any questions and/or problems please report them to the Google groups sage-devel or sage-support. You can also drop by in #sage-devel or #sage-support in freenode. [Less]

JabRef is a graphical Java application for managing bibtex (. bib) databases. It can import bibliographies in numerous formats, provides extensive searching, sorting, and grouping features, can ... [More] automatically create bibtex keys, and can insert citations into LyX. [Less]

NLTK — the Natural Language Toolkit — is a suite of open source Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing, supporting dozens of ... [More] NLP tasks, with distributions for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. [Less]

KStars is a graphical desktop planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate simulation of the night sky, as seen from any location on Earth, on any date. The display includes 40,000 stars, 13,000 ... [More] deep-sky objects, 2500 comets and asteroids, all 8 planets, and the Sun and Moon. [Less]

BibDesk is a graphical BibTeX-bibliography manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. In addition to manual typing, BibDesk lets ... [More] you drag & drop or cut & paste .bib files into the bibliographic database and automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed. BibDesk also keeps track of electronic copies of literature on your computer and allows for searching your database through several keys. BibDesk integrates well with TeX for creating citations and bibliographies. This integration includes a Citation search completion service, and drag & drop (cut & paste) support for adding citations to TeX files. [Less]