Stefan Bidigaray wrote: > I was just sitting here today and I had an idea. Back in college I > wrote a small software (never actually finished it cause I had to > concentrate on my real classes) in MATLAB that implemented a very simple > Finite Element Analysis (FEA). For those of you that don't know, it's > the de facto way to solve for forces in any element and is used by all > Engineers in the Mechanical discipline (which is what I am). > > Anyway, the idea I had was to transfer this program into ObjC and turn > it into a library; GNUstep has some pretty powerful tools and a library > would allow the code to be used by any program. I'd like to know, if it > would be OK to "donate" (for lack of a better word) the code/library to > GNU/GNUstep and use it's repository? > > The project itself is still in the very early planning stages at this > point, but I would like to know if I go on with this if I would have a > place to put the code (I've never had experience with any thing like this). > > I only know how to mess with FEA, but I'd like to library/framework to > actually, at one point, hold a lot of useful classes and functions to > aid in writing good engineering programs (other sciences as well). > > I'd also like this e-mail to serve as a call to anyone interested in > something like this to let me know and maybe work together. I have > limited ObjC/GNUstep experience, but am a pretty good programmer, but I > don't see that as a problem, it's actually a learning opportunity. >
Sounds like a great idea to me. I had the FEA technique explained some 20 years ago and did not fully get it at that time, so I wont be of any use here, but if you have any programming problems I am willing to help out on that. Fred _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
