Re: Bayani

[Baker Abdulhaq <baker at aows10 dot uab dot es>]

Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:

> Wow ! I am delighted to hear this interest in Bayani ! That's something... And 
> it's the good news of this day :-)
>
> On Monday 02 February 2004 12:47, Baker Abdulhaq wrote:
>  
>
> > 1. a general question :What will be the relation between this project
> > and GNUPlot. I mean, is it an arabized front end or not. Will the
> > developers "I would like to be one of them" use the code of gnuplot in
> > some how ( ex. API)?
> >    
>
> No. Bayani is developed from scratch. It is not a front end of GnuPlot. 
> However, if you are interested to implement the missing features, that would 
> be exciting. Be sure to read the developer-list archives about the main 
> purpose of Bayani.
>
>  
>
> > 2. a technical question for me to learn: What do you call the fit
> > algorithm? I mean what is the math. behind it?
> >    
>
> Actually, I wrote that algorithm just for fun :-) It's far from being 
> performant (it gives some funny results sometimes with rather easy to fit 
> data) and the plan is to implement some "real" algorithms: resources about 
> that exist all over the net.
>  
GNU Scientific Library GSL have  great functions that are very useful 
for curve fitting (not only linear).  ( 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/  ) I think it can bey helpful.  Curve 
fitting is very interesting for many areas from physics to economics. I 
think such a program will have useful application in the universities.

> I am actually the only developer of Bayani. There are "lots" of TODOS (in 
> fact, you can't even imagine the number :-). Please let me know if you are 
> interested to work at least on one of the two issues above. There is also the 
> postscript issue, but it may be boring.
>  
Sure, I am interesting in the work.

> If you want to test Bayani make sure to download the CVS version and not the 
> released one (which is now very outdated): 
> http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/bayani/
>
> You are more than welcome if you want to contribute. You can start right away, 
> just let me know :-)
>
> Salam,
>
>  

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