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If you are using - Boost.Python as your Python/C++ binding solution, we'd be proud to list - your project on this page. Just <a href= - "mailto:c++-sig@python.org">post</a> a short description of your project - and how Boost.Python helps you get the job done, and we'll add it to this - page .</p> - <hr> - - <h3>Data Analysis</h3> - - <dl class="page-index"> - <dt><b><a href="http://www.neuralynx.com">NeuraLab</a></b></dt> - - <dd>Neuralab is a data analysis environment specifically tailored for - neural data from <a href="http://www.neuralynx.com">Neuralynx</a> - acquisition systems. Neuralab combines presentation quality graphics, a - numerical analysis library, and the <a href= - "http://www.python.org">Python</a> scripting engine in a single - application. With Neuralab, Neuralynx users can perform common analysis - tasks with just a few mouse clicks. More advanced users can create custom - Python scripts, which can optionally be assigned to menus and mouse - clicks.</dd> - </dl> - - <dl class="page-index"> - <dt><b>TSLib</b> - <a href="http://www.fortressinv.com">Fortress - Investment Group LLC</a></dt> - - <dd> - Fortress Investment Group has contracted <a href= - "http://www.boost-consulting.com">Boost Consulting</a> to develop core - internal financial analysis tools in C++ and to prepare Python bindings - for them using Boost.Python. - - <p>Tom Barket of Fortress writes:</p> - - <blockquote> - We have a large C++ analytical library specialized for research in - finance and economics, built for speed and mission critical - stability. Yet Python offers us the flexibility to test out new ideas - quickly and increase the productivity of our time versus working in - C++. There are several key features which make Python stand out. Its - elegance, stability, and breadth of resources on the web are all - valuable, but the most important is its extensibility, due to its - open source transparency. Boost.Python makes Python extensibility - extremely simple and straightforward, yet preserves a great deal of - power and control. - </blockquote> - </dd> - </dl> - - <h3>Educational</h3> - - <dl class="page-index"> - <dt><a href="http://edu.kde.org/kig"><b>Kig</b></a></dt> - - <dd> - <p>KDE Interactive Geometry is a high-school level educational tool, - built for the KDE desktop. It is a nice tool to let students work with - geometrical constructions. It is meant to be the most intuitive, yet - featureful application of its kind.</p> - - <p>Versions after 0.6.x (will) support objects built by the user - himself in the Python language. The exporting of the relevant internal - API's were done using Boost.Python, which made the process very - easy.</p> - </dd> - </dl> - - <h3>Enterprise Software</h3> - - <dl class="page-index"> - <dt><b><a href="http://openwbem.sourceforge.net">OpenWBEM</a></b></dt> - - <dd> - The OpenWBEM project is an effort to develop an open-source - implementation of Web Based Enterprise Management suitable for - commercial and non-commercial application - - <p><a href="mailto:dnuffer@sco.com">Dan Nuffer</a> writes:</p> - - <blockquote> - I'm using Boost.Python to wrap the client API of OpenWBEM.This will - make it easier to do rapid prototyping, testing, and scripting when - developing management solutions that use WBEM. - </blockquote> - </dd> - - <dt><b><a href="http://www.transversal.com">Metafaq</a></b></dt> - - <dd> - Metafaq, from <a href="http://www.transversal.com">Transversal, - Inc.</a>, is an enterprise level online knowledge base management - system. - - <p><a href="mailto:ben.young-at-transversal.com">Ben Young</a> - writes:</p> - - <blockquote> - Boost.Python is used in an automated process to generate python - bindings to our api which is exposed though multiple backends and - frontends. This allows us to write quick tests and bespoke scripts to - perform one off tasks without having to go through the full - compilation cycle. - </blockquote> - </dd> - </dl> - - <h3>Games</h3> - - <dl> - <dt><b><a href="http://www.firaxis.com">Civilization IV</a></b></dt> - </dl> - - <blockquote> - “The fourth game in the PC strategy series that has sold over five - million copies, Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a bold step forward for - the franchise, with spectacular new 3D graphics and all-new single and - multiplayer content. Civilization IV will also set a new standard for - user-modification, allowing gamers to create their own add-ons using - Python and XML. - - <p>Sid Meier's Civilization IV will be released for PC in late 2005. For - more information please visit <a href= - "http://www.firaxis.com">http://www.firaxis.com</a> or write <a href= - "mailto:kgilmore@firaxis.com">kgilmore@firaxis.com</a>”</p> - </blockquote> - - <p>Boost.Python is used as the interface layer between the C++ game code - and Python. Python is used for many purposes in the game, including map - generation, interface screens, game events, tools, tutorials, etc. Most - high-level game operations have been exposed to Python in order to give - modders the power they need to customize the game.</p> - - <blockquote> - -Mustafa Thamer, Civ4 Lead Programmer - </blockquote> - - <dl class="page-index"> - <dt><b><a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega - Strike</a></b></dt> - - <dd> - <a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega Strike</a> is the 3D - Space Simulator that allows you to trade and bounty hunt in a vast - universe. Players face dangers, decisions, piracy, and aliens. - - <p><a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega Strike</a> has - decided to base its scripting on python, using boost as the layer - between the class hierarchy in python and the class hierarchy in C++. - The result is a very flexible scripting system that treats units as - native python classes when designing missions or writing AI's.</p> - - <p>A large economic and planetary simulation is currently being run in - the background in python and the results are returned back into C++ in - the form of various factions' spaceships appearing near worlds that - they are simulated to be near in python if the player is in the general - neighborhood.</p> - </dd> - </dl> - - <h3>Graphics</h3> - - <dl class="page-index"> - <dt><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyosg">OpenSceneGraph - Bindings</a></b></dt> - - <dd><a href="mailto:gideon@computer.org">Gideon May</a> has created a set - of bindings for <a href= - "http://www.openscenegraph.org">OpenSceneGraph</a>, a cross-platform - C++/OpenGL library for the real-time visualization.<br> - </dd> - - <dt><b><a href= - "http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/ek/hippodraw/index.html">HippoDraw</a></b></dt> - - <dd> - HippoDraw is a data analysis environment consisting of a canvas upon - which graphs such as histograms, scattter plots, etc, are prsented. It - has a highly interactive GUI interface, but some things you need to do - with scripts. HippoDraw can be run as Python extension module so that - all the manipulation can be done from either Python or the GUI. - - <p>Before the web page came online, <a href= - "mailto:Paul_Kunz@SLAC.Stanford.EDU">Paul F. Kunz</a> wrote:</p> - - <blockquote> - Don't have a web page for the project, but the organization's is - <a href= - "http://www.slac.stanford.edu">http://www.slac.stanford.edu</a> (the - first web server site in America, I installed it). - </blockquote>Which was just too cool a piece of trivia to omit.<br> - - </dd> - - <dt><a href="http://www.iplt.org"><b>IPLT</b></a></dt> - - <dd> - <a href="mailto:ansgar.philippsen-at-unibas.ch">Ansgar Philippsen</a> - writes: - - <blockquote> - IPLT is an image processing library and toolbox for the structural - biology electron microscopy community. I would call it a - budding/evolving project, since it is currently not in production - stage, but rather under heavy development. Python is used as the main - scripting/interaction level, but also for rapid prototyping, since - the underlying C++ class library is pretty much fully exposed via - boost.python (at least the high-level interface). The combined power - of C++ and Python for this project turned out to be just awesome. - </blockquote><br> - - </dd> - - <dt><a href= - "http://www.procoders.net/pythonmagick"><b>PythonMagick</b></a></dt> - - <dd>PythonMagick binds the <a href= - "http://www.graphicsmagick.org">GraphicsMagick</a> image manipulation - library to Python.<br> - </dd> - - <dt><a href="http://www.vpython.org"><b>VPython</b></a></dt> - - <dd> - <a href="mailto:Bruce_Sherwood-at-ncsu.edu">Bruce Sherwood</a> writes: - - <blockquote> - VPython is an extension for Python that makes it easy to create - navigable 3D animations, which are generated as a side effect of - computational code. VPython is used in education for various - purposes, including teaching physics and programming, but it has also - been used by research scientists to visualize systems or data in 3D. - </blockquote><br> - - </dd> - </dl> - - <h3>Scientific Computing</h3> - - <dl class="page index"> - <dt><a href="http://camfr.sourceforge.net"><b>CAMFR</b></a></dt> - - <dd> - CAMFR is a photonics and electromagnetics modelling tool. Python is - used for computational steering. - - <p><a href="mailto:Peter.Bienstman@rug.ac.be">Peter Bienstman</a> - writes:</p> - - <blockquote> - Thanks for providing such a great tool! - </blockquote> - </dd> - - <dt><a href="http://cctbx.sourceforge.net"><b>cctbx - Computational - Crystallography Toolbox</b></a></dt> - - <dd> - Computational Crystallography is concerned with the derivation of - atomic models of crystal structures, given experimental X-ray - diffraction data. The cctbx is an open-source library of fundamental - algorithms for crystallographic computations. The core algorithms are - implemented in C++ and accessed through higher-level Python interfaces. - - <p>The cctbx grew together with Boost.Python and is designed from the - ground up as a hybrid Python/C++ system. With one minor exception, - run-time polymorphism is completely handled by Python. C++ compile-time - polymorphism is used to implement performance critical algorithms. The - Python and C++ layers are seamlessly integrated using Boost.Python.</p> - - <p>The SourceForge cctbx project is organized in modules to facilitate - use in non-crystallographic applications. The scitbx module implements - a general purpose array family for scientific applications and pure C++ - ports of FFTPACK and the L-BFGS quasi-Newton minimizer.</p> - </dd> - - <dt><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/emsolve"><b>EMSolve</b></a></dt> - - <dd>EMSolve is a provably stable, charge conserving, and energy - conserving solver for Maxwell's equations.<br> - </dd> - - <dt><b><a href="http://cern.ch/gaudi">Gaudi</a></b> and <b><a href= - "http://cern.ch/Gaudi/RootPython/">RootPython</a></b></dt> - - <dd> - Gaudi is a framework for particle physics collision data processing - applications developed in the context of the LHCb and ATLAS experiments - at CERN. - - <p><a href="mailto:Pere.Mato@cern.ch">Pere Mato Vila</a> writes:</p> - - <blockquote> - We are using Boost.Python to provide scripting/interactive capability - to our framework. We have a module called "GaudiPython" implemented - using Boost.Python that allows the interaction with any framework - service or algorithm from python. RootPython also uses Boost.Python - to provide a generic "gateway" between the <a href= - "http://root.cern.ch">ROOT</a> framework and python - - <p>Boost.Python is great. We managed very quickly to interface our - framework to python, which is great language. We are trying to - facilitate to our physicists (end-users) a rapid analysis application - development environment based on python. For that, Boost.Python plays - and essential role.</p> - </blockquote> - </dd> - - <dt><b><a href="http://www.esss.com.br">ESSS</a></b></dt> - - <dd> - ESSS (Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software) is a company that - provides engineering solutions and acts in the brazilian and - south-american market providing products and services related to - Computational Fluid Dynamics and Image Analysis. - - <p><a href="mailto:bruno@esss.com.br">Bruno da Silva de Oliveira</a> - writes:</p> - - <blockquote> - Recently we moved our work from working exclusively with C++ to an - hybrid-language approach, using Python and C++, with Boost.Python - providing the layer between the two. The results are great so far! - </blockquote> - - <p>Two projects have been developed so far with this technology:</p> - - <p><b><a href= - "http://www.esss.com.br/index.php?pg=dev_projetos">Simba</a></b> - provides 3D visualization of geological formations gattered from the - simulation of the evolution of oil systems, allowing the user to - analyse various aspects of the simulation, like deformation, pressure - and fluids, along the time of the simulation.</p> - - <p><b><a href= - "http://www.esss.com.br/index.php?pg=dev_projetos">Aero</a></b> aims to - construct a CFD with brazilian technology, which involves various - companies and universities. ESSS is responsible for various of the - application modules, including GUI and post-processing of results.</p> - </dd> - - <dt><b><a href="http://polybori.sourceforge.net/">PolyBoRi</a></b></dt> - - <dd> - <p><a href="mailto:brickenstein@mfo.de" - >Michael Brickenstein</a> writes:</p> - - <blockquote> - <p>The core of PolyBoRi is a C++ library, which provides - high-level data types for Boolean polynomials and monomials, - exponent vectors, as well as for the underlying polynomial - rings and subsets of the powerset of the Boolean variables. As - a unique approach, binary decision diagrams are used as - internal storage type for polynomial structures. On top of - this C++-library we provide a Python interface. This allows - parsing of complex polynomial systems, as well as sophisticated - and extendable strategies for Gröbner basis computation. - Boost.Python has helped us to create this interface in a - very clean way.</p> - </blockquote> - </dd> - - <dt><b><a href="http://pyrap.googlecode.com/">Pyrap</a></b></dt> - <dd> - <p><a href="diepen@astron.nl" - >Ger van Diepen</a> writes:</p> - - <blockquote> - <p>Pyrap is the python interface to the Radio-Astronomical Package - casacore (<a href="http://casacore.googlecode.com/" - >casacore.googlecode.com</a>). Astronomers love pyrap because - it makes it easily possible to get their data (observed with - radio-astronomical telescopes like LOFAR, ASKAP, and eVLA) in numpy - arrays and do basic data inspection and manipulation using the many - python packages that are available.</p> - - <p>Boost.Python made it quite easily possible to create converters for - the various data types, also for numpy arrays and individual elements - of a numpy array. It's nice they work fully recursively. Mapping C++ - functions to Python was straightforward.</p> - </blockquote> - </dd> - - <dt><b><a href="http://www.rdkit.org/" - >RDKit: Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software</a></b></dt> - - <dd> - A collection of cheminformatics and machine-learning software - written in C++ and Python. - </dd> - </dl> - - <h3>Systems Libraries</h3> - - <dl> - <dt><a href="http://itamarst.org/software"><b>Fusion</b></a></dt> - - <dd> - <p>Fusion is a library that supports implementing protocols in C++ for - use with Twisted, allowing control over memory allocation strategies, - fast method calls internally, etc.. Fusion supports TCP, UDP and - multicast, and is implemented using the Boost.Python python - bindings.</p> - - <p>Fusion is licensed under the MIT license, and available for download - from <a href= - "http://itamarst.org/software">http://itamarst.org/software</a>.</p> - </dd> - </dl> - - <h3>Tools</h3> - - <dl> - <dt><a href="http://www.jayacard.org"><b>Jayacard</b></a></dt> - - <dd> - Jayacard aims at developing a secure portable open source operating - system for contactless smart cards and a complete suite of high quality - development tools to ease smart card OS and application development. - - <p>The core of the smart card reader management is written in C++ but - all the development tools are written in the friendly Python language. - Boost plays the fundamental role of binding the tools to our core smart - card reader library.</p> - </dd> - </dl> - <hr> - - <p>Revised - <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan --> - 29 May, 2008</p> - - <p><i>© Copyright <a href="http://www.boost.org/people/dave_abrahams.htm">Dave - Abrahams</a> 2002-2008.</i></p> -</body> -</html> |