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skywatcher
February 15th, 2007, 11:08 AM
I suppose it amounts to wishful thinking to ask whether there exists an equivalent of Matlab's Simulink for Octave?
louis_nichols
February 15th, 2007, 12:40 PM
I don't know of any, but would be glad to see I'm wrong.

There is an application that is similar to simulink, though, but I just can't remember the name right now. I have it at home, though, and can get back with that.

EDIT: I just remembered it! flow designer.

http://flowdesigner.sourceforge.net/

I haven't tried it yet, so I can't tell much about it. Hope it helps, though.
skywatcher
February 16th, 2007, 09:38 AM
Hi Louis

Thanks for the link. I had a quick look at FlowDesigner, and it seems worth playing around with sometime.
hizaguchi
February 16th, 2007, 09:23 PM
There is a plugin for Scilab that looks very similar to Simulink. It's here: http://www.scicos.org/ I've not had a chance to try it yet though.
skywatcher
February 17th, 2007, 10:58 AM
Thanks for the link. I notice that Scicos supports C code generation, which is a plus.
lochlan
February 2nd, 2009, 12:09 AM
The octave FAQ recommends http://www.scicraft.org/
sethupathy
July 13th, 2010, 03:06 AM
MATLAB is available for Linux.. In ubutu we can install it and use it..
hubie
July 13th, 2010, 10:05 PM
MATLAB is available for Linux.. In ubutu we can install it and use it..

That only helps if you actually have the software, and of course, you have to pay for it and it doesn't come cheap. This can be a great detriment to those of us who cannot get academic or student pricing.
nutsy.ben
August 2nd, 2010, 05:08 AM
That only helps if you actually have the software, and of course, you have to pay for it and it doesn't come cheap. This can be a great detriment to those of us who cannot get academic or student pricing.

Moreover octave launch so much faster in a terminal.
Much more efficient and productive !!
ozziem
January 15th, 2011, 08:54 AM
Moreover octave launch so much faster in a terminal.
Much more efficient and productive !!

matlab can launch fast and in a terminal using

matlab -nodesktop -nojvm

this is how matlab always used to look before they filled it with horrible windows-like cruft.

Of course octave is free and open source, so it has its own advantages. I'm just not sure that the reason you quote (i.e. more efficient and productive) is valid.