FreeMat - Rapid engineering and scientific prototyping

Thursday, 08 January 2009 22:08

FreeMat is a free numerical interpreted matrix-oriented computing environment and programming language for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing similar to MATLAB from Mathworks and GNU Octave. In addition to supporting many MATLAB functions and some IDL functionality, it features codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code, further Freemat provides visualization, image manipulation, and plotting as well as parallel programming (parallel distributed algorithm development via MPI), and some extended volume and 3D visualization capabilities. Some features;

Support for 8,16, 32, and 64 bit integer types (signed and unsigned), 32 and 64 bit floating point types, and 64 and 128 bit complex types;
Support for solving linear systems of equations via the divide operators;
Arbitrary-size FFT support;
3D Plotting and visualization via OpenGL;
Full support for dynamic structure arrays;
Sparse Matrix native support;
Signal processing functions;
Numerical methods;
Optimization and Curve Fitting;
Object Oriented Programming;
...and many others!