The day at work was pretty slow. So, I took the opportunity to properly install Octave under cygwin (it wasn’t as easy !). Cygwin is basically the standard GNU (Unix-like) environment running under MS-Windows. It allows to re-compile and run most programs that will run on Linux/Unix/BSD/etc. Octave is one of such programs. It’s a Matlab clone. A program that allows to play around with applied math. It also has a programming language that is useful to work on algorithms.. like for image processing. That’s actually my goal. To use Octave to play around with images, rather than write directly ‘C’ code. This would allow to make quick prototypes of algorithms, and also verify data in a more practical way. Basically a tool for research.
Unfortunately Octave doesn’t have the same support for image processing that Matlab has. For the time being, I’ll just try to deal with it.
We’ll see !

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