On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:31:55PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: > Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/griddata-python/ > > * License : MITish > > That URL claims the licence is "GNU General Public License v2" Yeah, but not all of it ... but read on.
> > This module provides a single function, 'griddata', that fits a surface > > to nonuniformly spaced data points. It behaves basically like its > > equivalent > > in Matlab. > > > How does this relate to the algorithm mentioned in > http://lwn.net/Articles/292979/ where it says: > > "Jeffrey Whitaker has added support for gridding irregularly spaced > data using the Matlab (TM) equivalent griddata function. This is a > long-standing feature request for matplotlib and a major > enhancement. matplotlib now ships with Robert Kern's delaunay > triangularization code (BSD license), which supports the default > griddata implementation, but there are some known corner cases where > this routine fails. As such, Jeff has provided a python wrapper to > the NCAR natgrid routines, whose licensing terms are a bit murkier, > for those who need bullet proof gridding routines. If the NCAR > toolkit is installed, griddata will detect it and use it. See > http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib.mlab.html#-griddata for details. > Thanks Robert and Jeff." That seems to be exactly the same -- great! The griddata package would have contained NCAR, but under this circumstances it is not really necessary, IMHO. Godd news -- thanks for pointing it out! Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/hanke ICQ: 48230050 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
