Re: [Radiance-dev] Python scripts for Radiance

2016-03-24 Thread Randolph M. Fritz
My impression is that Python has become something of a standard in the research community, with tools like SciPy, NumPy, and SAGE widely used, though Perl has a library comparable to NumPy in PDL, and there is a SciRuby, There is nothing else like SAGE except for the commercial packages

Re: [Radiance-dev] Python scripts for Radiance

2016-03-24 Thread Gregory J. Ward
Hi Rob, We should definitely try this again -- as I said, binary matrix files shouldn't be a problem anymore, so long as it has a header with the number of rows and columns in it, so the receiving program knows when to stop reading in data. You will still have issues with tools like rcalc