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What is Octave?

What is Octave? (cont'd)

What is Octave? (cont'd)

What is Octave? (cont'd)

History

My involvement in Octave

My involvement with Octave (cont'd)

My involvement with Octave (cont'd)

Octave as a forum

Why Octave was an ideal choice

Stratigraphic analysis: a quickie

Stratigraphic analysis (cont'd)

Results: Chromitite layers

Results: texture analysis

Results: texture analysis (cont'd)

Results: texture analysis (cont'd)

Results: texture analysis (cont'd)

The case for MATLAB®

The case for Octave

Speed comparisons

Possible Octave issues

New and planned features

Extending Octave in C++

Extending Octave in C++ (cont'd)

Malleable Octave

How Octave is used in practice

Contributed Toolboxes FANN bindings – Søren Hauberg

Contributed Toolboxes OctaveGTK by Muthiah Annamalai

Contributed Toolboxes OctaViz – Dragan Tubic, Jonathan Stickel

Demonstration

Octave needs you!