Department of Mechanics: Software

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Software developed at the Department of Mechanics:

Selected software potentially useful for scientific applications:

  • Engauge Digitizer - conversion of an image file containing graphs into a text file with numbers specifying the coordinates of selected points
  • Gnuplot - portable command-line driven graphing utility
  • Maxima - computer algebra system
  • Octave - open-source tool similar to Matlab
  • ParaView - open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application
  • PDF scissors - a tool to crop pdfs; usefull for reading pdf files (especially the scanned ones) easily in ebook readers
  • Veusz - scientific plotting package
  • Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] - free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.

Comparison of software useful for scientific applications at WIKI with the list of pairs - software (experienced users):