FSFS2008 - 0.1
Free Software Free Society
Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture
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Python and Mayavi |
Dr. Prabhu Ramachandran
Dr. Prabhu Ramachandran is a member of the faculty at the department of aerospace engineering, IIT Bombay. He is an alumnus from the department of aerospace engineering, IIT Madras. His research interests include vortex methods and particle methods for computational fluid dynamics and scientific computing. He is an advocate of Free and Open Source software and in his spare time develop some free/open software.
In 1998, Prabhu Ramachandran and Arun Krishnaswamy informally started the Indian Linux Users Group Chennai chapter(ILUGC).
Some free software packages authored by him are, MayaVi -- MayaVi is a powerful scientific data visualizer that is written in 100% pure Python and uses VTK TVTK -- TVTK is an open source and Python friendly wrapper around the popular VTK visualization and graphics library. MayaVi2 -- MayaVi2 (M2) is the next generation of MayaVi and is part of the Enthought Tool Suite. Ygl_script : This provides Python, Perl and Tcl bindings for the Ygl library along with a simple wrapper class that allows one to do a rubber-band zoom using the mouse. LaTeX class for dissertations submitted to IIT-M -- This tarball provides a LaTeX class along with a simple template thesis and synopsis.