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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> |