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Old Math Software from 1990s (xahlee.info)
2 points by the-mitr 8 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



From the The Computational Beauty of Nature:

https://github.com/gwf/CBofN

If you use CWM as your window manager, it might crash as some of the software only works fine with the bundled FVWM release or TWM. You can use DieHard:

https://github.com/emeryberger/DieHard

Usage: env LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/DieHard/src/libdiehard.so /path/to/your/binary

example: env LD_PRELOAD=$HOME/src/DieHard/src/libdiehard.so $HOME/src/CBofN/bin/mandel

Xaos it's a fun software from the 90's, I think today uses QT5 instead of Xaw, but it's virtually the same interface.

Another examples would be the ones from the AI Alife Howto's from the 90's.

And, finally, there's the uber known Gnuplot, albeit it's from late 80's, but it was widely developed and used in the 90's, and still really powerful to plot from whatever software, as it can use plain text files and you can compile it without QT and WX, making it extremely light on legacy software.

BTW, there was some language to create math figures/art declaratively. A la povray, but without raytracing. I can't remember it's name. It wasn't pic, or PostScript.




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