Japanese “Hiragana” and “Katakana” fonts in Madagascar

January 28, 2010 Celebration No comments

Update Madagascar and try “\F17” and “\F18”, respectively. The ligatures can be found in Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana.

Java API

January 23, 2010 Systems No comments

Jeff Godwin adds Java API based on Dave Hale’s Mines Java Toolkit.

Solution steering

January 5, 2010 Documentation No comments

Another old paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents:
Solution steering with space-variant filters

Madagascar on Playstation 3

December 18, 2009 Systems No comments

Madagascar has been successfully installed on a Playstation 3 running YellowDog Linux. See the slides below for a walkthrough!

PowerPoint

Linearized eikonal

November 15, 2009 Documentation No comments

Another old paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents:
Traveltime computation with the linearized eikonal equation

Structure-enhancing filtering

November 6, 2009 Documentation No comments

A new paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents:
Nonlinear structure-enhancing filtering using plane-wave prediction

3-D moveout correction

October 12, 2009 Documentation No comments

A new paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents:
3D velocity-independent elliptically-anisotropic moveout correction

Empirism is not a matter of faith

August 17, 2009 Systems No comments

Coming from a completely different field (computational linguistics), Ted Pedersen argues that

releasing software that makes it easy to reproduce and modify experiments should be an essential part of the publication process, to the point where we might one day only accept for publication articles that are accompanied by working software that allows for immediate and reliable reproduction of results.

See also slides (and listen to audio) from Ted’s keynote presentation at the 2009 NACCL conference.

Madagascar in AMRITA

July 12, 2009 Systems No comments

James Quirk provides an example of running Madagascar from a PDF file using AMRITA. To try it out, you need to install AMRITA first.

Code metrics by Ohloh

July 3, 2009 Links No comments

The Madagascar project has been registered with Ohloh in order to get free code metrics. Visit the Madagascar code analysis page on Ohloh to find out many things, such as: what types of software licenses besides GPL 2+ are in Madagascar; how many non-blank, non-comment lines are written in each programming language; and to see an evolution of the total number of lines over time! Apparently we have more than 152 000 lines of C. Awesome.
Especially nice and encouraging is the graph with the steady growth of number of source code lines over time. According to Ohloh: “It’s generally a good sign to see sustained, constant activity over a long period of time. This means that people are continually updating it (fixing bugs and/or improving features), and that the project has staying power.” The official Ohloh assessment about Madagascar is: “Mature, well-established codebase; Large, active development team”.
Ohloh also lets enthusiastic users vote for the package, so that popular packages become even more visible! Vote today so that we get even more users and developers, even more bug reports, documentation and contributions, and overall a more useful package!