Simulink is well fitted for small simulators, but when you run into big projects, I find many shortcomings appears which made the whole thing next to unusable for our kind of projects.
That's why I'm interested in Python by the way, it is not a simple clone like Scilab/Scicos. It is a real language which bring its own advantages, and its own shortcomings, which I find well suited for our activity. If you want, I can send you a paper I wrote last year, detailing all Simulink shortcomings. I doubt that this mailing list is interested in such things...(and it's in French...). Concerning Scilab/Scicos, I'm not really interested in a technology primarily developed (INRIA and ENSPC) and used by France. Python and all its libraries and communities are so much more dynamic ! And also I've heard that Scilab was developed in Fortran in a way which make it rigid and that the sources are poorly documented, not a good sign for an open source software (and Scilab isn't 'Free' for the FSF). Regards, *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 8 Oct 2005 11:06:25 -0700, "Sébastien Boisgérault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > Simulink is a framework widely used by the control engineers ... > It is not *perfect* but the ODEs piece is probably the best > part of the simulator. Why were you not convinced ? > > You may also have a look at Scicos and Ptolemy II. These > simulators are open-source ... but not based on Python. > > Cheers, > > SB > > > > > > Nicolas Pernetty a écrit : > > > Hello Phil, > > > > Yes I have considered Octave. In fact I'm already using Matlab and > > decided to 'reject' it for Python + Numeric/numarray + SciPy because > > I think you could do more in Python and in more simple ways. > > > > Problem is that neither Octave, Matlab and Python offer today a > > framework to build continuous system simulator (in fact Matlab with > > Simulink and SimMechanics, do propose, but I was not convinced at > > all). > > > > Regards, > > > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > > > On 7 Oct 2005 11:00:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > > > > > Nicholas, > > > > > > Have you looked at Octave? It is not Python, but I believe it can > > > talk to Python. > > > Octave is comparable to Matlab for many things, including having > > > ODE solvers. I have successfully used it to model and simulate > > > simple systems. Complex system would be easy to model as well, > > > provided that you model your dynamic elements with (systems of) > > > differential equations. > > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list