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author | Kai T. Ohlhus <k.ohlhus@gmail.com> |
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date | Wed, 08 Jul 2020 14:05:42 +0900 |
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--- layout: default --- <section> <div class="row"> <div class="columns medium-6"> <a href="#" data-reveal-id="meshModal"> <img src="{{ "/img/example-mesh.svg" | relative_url }}" style="height: 400px; width: auto;" alt="Example mesh"> </a> </div> <div class="columns medium-6"> <h2 class="home-title"> <img src="{{ "/img/octave-logo.svg" | relative_url }}" style="float: left; height: 48px; width: auto; padding-right: 0.5rem" alt="GNU Octave logo"> GNU Octave </h2> <h3>Scientific Programming Language</h3> <ul> <li>Powerful mathematics-oriented syntax with built-in plotting and visualization tools</li> <li>Free software, runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, and Microsoft Windows</li> <li>Drop-in compatible with many Matlab scripts</li> </ul> <div> <ul class="button-group stack-for-small even-2"> <li><a href="{{ "download.html" | relative_url }}" class="button">Download</a></li> <li><a href="{{ site.docs_url }}" class="button">Docs</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section> <h3>Syntax Examples</h3> <div class="row"> <div class="columns medium-12"> <p> The Octave syntax is largely compatible with Matlab. The Octave interpreter can be run in GUI mode, as a console, or invoked as part of a shell script. More Octave examples can be found in <a href="{{ site.wiki_url }}/Using_Octave">the wiki</a>. </p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="columns medium-4" > <p> Solve systems of equations with linear algebra operations on <strong>vectors</strong> and <strong>matrices</strong>. </p> </div> <div class="columns medium-8"> {% highlight octave %} b = [4; 9; 2] # Column vector A = [ 3 4 5; 1 3 1; 3 5 9 ] x = A \ b # Solve the system Ax = b {% endhighlight %} </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="columns medium-4"> <p> Visualize data with <strong>high-level plot commands</strong> in 2D and 3D. </p> </div> <div class="columns medium-8"> {% highlight octave %} x = -10:0.1:10; # Create an evenly-spaced vector from -10..10 y = sin (x); # y is also a vector plot (x, y); title ("Simple 2-D Plot"); xlabel ("x"); ylabel ("sin (x)"); {% endhighlight %} <a href="#" data-reveal-id="plotModal">Click here to see the plot output.</a> </div> </div> </section> <section> <h3>Octave Forge</h3> <div class="row"> <div class="columns medium-9"> <p> <a href="{{ site.sourceforge_url }}">Octave Forge</a> is a collection of high quality packages for GNU Octave, similar to Matlab's toolboxes. To install a package, use the <code>pkg</code> command from the Octave prompt by typing: </p> {% highlight text %} pkg install -forge package_name pkg load package_name {% endhighlight %} </div> <div class="columns large-3"> <a href="{{ site.sourceforge_url }}/packages.php" class="button expand">Browse Packages</a> </div> </div> </section> <section> <h3>Development</h3> <p> Octave is free software licensed under the <a href="{{ "license.html" | relative_url }}">GNU General Public License (GPL)</a>. Assuming you have Mercurial installed on your machine you may obtain the latest development version of Octave sources with the following command: </p> {% highlight text %} hg clone https://www.octave.org/hg/octave {% endhighlight %} <p> <a href="{{ "/get-involved.html" | relative_url }}">Get involved</a> in Octave development. </p> </section> <section> <div class="row"> <div class="columns small-12"> {% assign latest_post = site.posts.first %} {% if latest_post %} <div class="panel callout"> <a class="right" href="{{ "/feed.xml" | relative_url }}"> <span class="label warning"> RSS </span> </a> <h3 class="entry-title"> <a href="{{ latest_post.url | relative_url }}">{{ latest_post.title }}</a> </h3> <p class="post-meta">{{ latest_post.date | date: "%b %-d, %Y" }}</p> <div class="entry-content">{{ latest_post.excerpt }}</div> </div> {% endif %} </div> </div> </section> <div id="meshModal" class="reveal-modal" data-reveal aria-hidden="true" role="dialog"> <img src="{{ "/img/example-mesh.svg" | relative_url }}" alt="Example mesh"> <a class="close-reveal-modal" aria-label="Close">×</a> </div> <div id="plotModal" class="reveal-modal" data-reveal aria-hidden="true" role="dialog"> <img src="{{ "/img/example-plot.svg" | relative_url }}" alt="Example plot"> <a class="close-reveal-modal" aria-label="Close">×</a> </div> <div id="guiModal" class="reveal-modal" data-reveal aria-hidden="true" role="dialog"> <img src="{{ "/img/GNU_Octave_4-4-0_screenshot_1600x900.png" | relative_url }}" alt="GNU Octave GUI screenshot"> <a class="close-reveal-modal" aria-label="Close">×</a> </div>