Re: GNUstep for Engineers

[Fred Kiefer]

Stefan Bidigaray wrote:
> I was just sitting here today and I had an idea.  Back in college I
> wrote a small software (never actually finished it cause I had to
> concentrate on my real classes) in MATLAB that implemented a very simple
> Finite Element Analysis (FEA).  For those of you that don't know, it's
> the de facto way to solve for forces in any element and is used by all
> Engineers in the Mechanical discipline (which is what I am).
> 
> Anyway, the idea I had was to transfer this program into ObjC and turn
> it into a library; GNUstep has some pretty powerful tools and a library
> would allow the code to be used by any program.  I'd like to know, if it
> would be OK to "donate" (for lack of a better word) the code/library to
> GNU/GNUstep and use it's repository?
> 
> The project itself is still in the very early planning stages at this
> point, but I would like to know if I go on with this if I would have a
> place to put the code (I've never had experience with any thing like this).
> 
> I only know how to mess with FEA, but I'd like to library/framework to
> actually, at one point, hold a lot of useful classes and functions to
> aid in writing good engineering programs (other sciences as well).
> 
> I'd also like this e-mail to serve as a call to anyone interested in
> something like this to let me know and maybe work together.  I have
> limited ObjC/GNUstep experience, but am a pretty good programmer, but I
> don't see that as a problem, it's actually a learning opportunity.
> 

Sounds like a great idea to me. I had the FEA technique explained some
20 years ago and did not fully get it at that time, so I wont be of any
use here,  but if you have any programming problems I am willing to help
out on that.

Fred