LaTeX files of my PhD thesis
The main files of my phd thesis, to give an example of the LaTeX code used
News and thoughts – Page 9
How is Mayavi pronounced
I have been traveling recently and talking to friendly Geeks I didn’t know yet. I have been surprised to see that many people were pronouncing “Mayavi”, “Maya-V-I”, is in “V-I”, like the old Unix editor. Maybe this comes from the spelling “MayaVi”, that Prabhu and I recently decided to …
Numpy doc sprint in Paris tomorrow!
We really need to get numpy 1.0.5 out. And for this release to rock, we want to have good docs. This is why Jarrod offered to have a doc sprint tomorrow.
In addition we are currently having a sprint in Paris for neuroimaging in Python, with a bunch …
Usability
I just wanted to echo a very good blog post about usability:
Users are busy not stupid.
As you design something, ask “is this relevant to what people are trying to do?” rather than “is this confusing?” […] It doesn’t matter whether people could figure something out. It matters whether …
Supporting our users under Windows
Many of our users use Windows. I don’t, I use Linux, but I completely respect people’s choice to use the OS they want, as I expect other people to respect my choice. As Prabhu also run Linux (and MacOS X), this means I should sometimes roll up my …
Playing with filters in Mayavi2
Mayavi uses VTK as a rendering engine. It does its best not to force you to learn anything about VTK, and I often forget about the infinite possibilities of this visualization toolkit, but sometimes it can be interesting to actually look at bit more at its data processing algorithms to …
Adding simple customisation to Mayavi2
Mayavi2 is a rewrite of the original Mayavi application to make it easier to adapt and customize.
Mayavi2 uses, for its full-blown application, the Envisage framework. As a result it can both use envisage plugins (such as the logger and the python shell), and contribute to other plugins, thus providing …
Mayavi2 in Ubuntu
After Debian, Mayavi2 has just made it into Ubuntu Hardy (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/science/mayavi2). From what I can see, the deps look just good, thanks a lot to Varun for making sure the Debian package was in shape. This means in April, it will be massively …
Mission accomplished
I defended my PhD yesterday. I am pretty happy to be done with this.
After the defense, the other PhD students offered me a plastic python (well it was a cobra, actually, but they told me to pretend it was a Python.
Mayavi2 in Debian
Thanks to the combined efforts of Ondrej Certik, who made me do the necessary tarballs, and Varun Hiremath, who finalized the packaging efforts, Mayavi2 is now in Debian ( http://packages.debian.org/sid/mayavi2 ). Currently, it is in testing, but it will soon trickle down to unstable. Along with Mayavi2 …
Mayavi2: using from ipython
Recently Prabhu and I have been ironing the library aspect of Mayavi2 (library as opposed to application). One of the usecases we are interested in, is interative use, via for instance ipython, a la pylab.
Most people think of Mayavi as a big and powerful application, maybe a bit clunky …
Hello world… hu I mean Planet !
Thanks to Jarrod Millman, we now have planet.scipy . This means it is time for me to create a blog, on top of my good old static site.
Garamond fonts for LaTeX
An easy to install version of Garamond fonts for LaTeX
Timing problems with a computer
Simple experiments on real-time computing, to put in the perspective of the computer-control of an experiment
Croisière des arts et métiers en Sicile
Du 20 au 27 février 2005, récit de Luc
Incroyable, mais vrai : après 3 ans de louze, on a enfin réussi cette année à s’inscrire à la croisière organisée par le BDE de l’ENSAM, qui se déroulait en Sicile, cette année. Il y a donc eu 3 équipages …
Raid catamaran en baie de Quiberon
Du 6 au 10 septembre 2004. Récit de Clara
Naviguer sur un catamaran de sport pendant une semaine, dormir sur la plage, tracer sa route au petit matin selon les conditions météo, tirer des bords de près de plus de deux heures.. Voilà une idée qui me tentait bien. Pourquoi …
Voyage en Islande
Du 23 juin au 22 juillet 2004, récit d’Emmanuelle
Introduction
Comment Gaël et moi avons-nous eu la drôle d’idée de partir un mois en Islande ? Eh bien, en plus il paraît que l’idée vient de moi, et ça doit être la lecture de bouquins sur les volcans …
Balades dans les crevasses
Cool week end, malgré le mauvais temps. Pour une fois j’étais ailleurs que dans Fjordland. J’essaie de me tirer de Fjordland pour voir le reste de cette fabuleuse ile (c’est dûr). Je crois que je ne mettrais même pas le pied dans la deuxième région classée patrimoine …
Mes vacances de pâques : 10 jours dans l’arrière pays
Tout a commencé il y a deux semaines, je me demandais ce que j’allais faire pendant les vacances de pâques. L’hivers approche ici, et un type normal resterait à Dunedin, une petite ville bien sympa. Bon étant donné que je ne suis pas vraiment un type normal vous …
What the local newspaper writes on the French
In the “Otago daily times”, lost in NZ’s South island
Sans commentaires (autre que j’ai trouvé cela très bon)