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28        <h2 align="center">Projects using Boost.Python</h2>
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33
34  <h2>Introduction</h2>
35
36  <p>This is a partial list of projects using Boost.Python. If you are using
37  Boost.Python as your Python/C++ binding solution, we'd be proud to list
38  your project on this page. Just <a href=
39  "mailto:c++-sig@python.org">post</a> a short description of your project
40  and how Boost.Python helps you get the job done, and we'll add it to this
41  page .</p>
42  <hr>
43
44  <h3>Data Analysis</h3>
45
46  <dl class="page-index">
47    <dt><b><a href="http://www.neuralynx.com">NeuraLab</a></b></dt>
48
49    <dd>Neuralab is a data analysis environment specifically tailored for
50    neural data from <a href="http://www.neuralynx.com">Neuralynx</a>
51    acquisition systems. Neuralab combines presentation quality graphics, a
52    numerical analysis library, and the <a href=
53    "http://www.python.org">Python</a> scripting engine in a single
54    application. With Neuralab, Neuralynx users can perform common analysis
55    tasks with just a few mouse clicks. More advanced users can create custom
56    Python scripts, which can optionally be assigned to menus and mouse
57    clicks.</dd>
58  </dl>
59
60  <dl class="page-index">
61    <dt><b>TSLib</b> - <a href="http://www.fortressinv.com">Fortress
62    Investment Group LLC</a></dt>
63
64    <dd>
65      Fortress Investment Group has contracted <a href=
66      "http://www.boost-consulting.com">Boost Consulting</a> to develop core
67      internal financial analysis tools in C++ and to prepare Python bindings
68      for them using Boost.Python.
69
70      <p>Tom Barket of Fortress writes:</p>
71
72      <blockquote>
73        We have a large C++ analytical library specialized for research in
74        finance and economics, built for speed and mission critical
75        stability. Yet Python offers us the flexibility to test out new ideas
76        quickly and increase the productivity of our time versus working in
77        C++. There are several key features which make Python stand out. Its
78        elegance, stability, and breadth of resources on the web are all
79        valuable, but the most important is its extensibility, due to its
80        open source transparency. Boost.Python makes Python extensibility
81        extremely simple and straightforward, yet preserves a great deal of
82        power and control.
83      </blockquote>
84    </dd>
85  </dl>
86
87  <h3>Educational</h3>
88
89  <dl class="page-index">
90    <dt><a href="http://edu.kde.org/kig"><b>Kig</b></a></dt>
91
92    <dd>
93      <p>KDE Interactive Geometry is a high-school level educational tool,
94      built for the KDE desktop. It is a nice tool to let students work with
95      geometrical constructions. It is meant to be the most intuitive, yet
96      featureful application of its kind.</p>
97
98      <p>Versions after 0.6.x (will) support objects built by the user
99      himself in the Python language. The exporting of the relevant internal
100      API's were done using Boost.Python, which made the process very
101      easy.</p>
102    </dd>
103  </dl>
104
105  <h3>Enterprise Software</h3>
106
107  <dl class="page-index">
108    <dt><b><a href="http://openwbem.sourceforge.net">OpenWBEM</a></b></dt>
109
110    <dd>
111      The OpenWBEM project is an effort to develop an open-source
112      implementation of Web Based Enterprise Management suitable for
113      commercial and non-commercial application
114
115      <p><a href="mailto:dnuffer@sco.com">Dan Nuffer</a> writes:</p>
116
117      <blockquote>
118        I'm using Boost.Python to wrap the client API of OpenWBEM.This will
119        make it easier to do rapid prototyping, testing, and scripting when
120        developing management solutions that use WBEM.
121      </blockquote>
122    </dd>
123
124    <dt><b><a href="http://www.transversal.com">Metafaq</a></b></dt>
125
126    <dd>
127      Metafaq, from <a href="http://www.transversal.com">Transversal,
128      Inc.</a>, is an enterprise level online knowledge base management
129      system.
130
131      <p><a href="mailto:ben.young-at-transversal.com">Ben Young</a>
132      writes:</p>
133
134      <blockquote>
135        Boost.Python is used in an automated process to generate python
136        bindings to our api which is exposed though multiple backends and
137        frontends. This allows us to write quick tests and bespoke scripts to
138        perform one off tasks without having to go through the full
139        compilation cycle.
140      </blockquote>
141    </dd>
142  </dl>
143
144  <h3>Games</h3>
145
146  <dl>
147    <dt><b><a href="http://www.firaxis.com">Civilization IV</a></b></dt>
148  </dl>
149
150  <blockquote>
151    &ldquo;The fourth game in the PC strategy series that has sold over five
152    million copies, Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a bold step forward for
153    the franchise, with spectacular new 3D graphics and all-new single and
154    multiplayer content. Civilization IV will also set a new standard for
155    user-modification, allowing gamers to create their own add-ons using
156    Python and XML.
157
158    <p>Sid Meier's Civilization IV will be released for PC in late 2005. For
159    more information please visit <a href=
160    "http://www.firaxis.com">http://www.firaxis.com</a> or write <a href=
161    "mailto:kgilmore@firaxis.com">kgilmore@firaxis.com</a>&rdquo;</p>
162  </blockquote>
163
164  <p>Boost.Python is used as the interface layer between the C++ game code
165  and Python. Python is used for many purposes in the game, including map
166  generation, interface screens, game events, tools, tutorials, etc. Most
167  high-level game operations have been exposed to Python in order to give
168  modders the power they need to customize the game.</p>
169
170  <blockquote>
171    -Mustafa Thamer, Civ4 Lead Programmer
172  </blockquote>
173
174  <dl class="page-index">
175    <dt><b><a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega
176    Strike</a></b></dt>
177
178    <dd>
179      <a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega Strike</a> is the 3D
180      Space Simulator that allows you to trade and bounty hunt in a vast
181      universe. Players face dangers, decisions, piracy, and aliens.
182
183      <p><a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega Strike</a> has
184      decided to base its scripting on python, using boost as the layer
185      between the class hierarchy in python and the class hierarchy in C++.
186      The result is a very flexible scripting system that treats units as
187      native python classes when designing missions or writing AI's.</p>
188
189      <p>A large economic and planetary simulation is currently being run in
190      the background in python and the results are returned back into C++ in
191      the form of various factions' spaceships appearing near worlds that
192      they are simulated to be near in python if the player is in the general
193      neighborhood.</p>
194    </dd>
195  </dl>
196
197  <h3>Graphics</h3>
198
199  <dl class="page-index">
200    <dt><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyosg">OpenSceneGraph
201    Bindings</a></b></dt>
202
203    <dd><a href="mailto:gideon@computer.org">Gideon May</a> has created a set
204    of bindings for <a href=
205    "http://www.openscenegraph.org">OpenSceneGraph</a>, a cross-platform
206    C++/OpenGL library for the real-time visualization.<br>
207    &nbsp;</dd>
208
209    <dt><b><a href=
210    "http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/ek/hippodraw/index.html">HippoDraw</a></b></dt>
211
212    <dd>
213      HippoDraw is a data analysis environment consisting of a canvas upon
214      which graphs such as histograms, scattter plots, etc, are prsented. It
215      has a highly interactive GUI interface, but some things you need to do
216      with scripts. HippoDraw can be run as Python extension module so that
217      all the manipulation can be done from either Python or the GUI.
218
219      <p>Before the web page came online, <a href=
220      "mailto:Paul_Kunz@SLAC.Stanford.EDU">Paul F. Kunz</a> wrote:</p>
221
222      <blockquote>
223        Don't have a web page for the project, but the organization's is
224        <a href=
225        "http://www.slac.stanford.edu">http://www.slac.stanford.edu</a> (the
226        first web server site in America, I installed it).
227      </blockquote>Which was just too cool a piece of trivia to omit.<br>
228      &nbsp;
229    </dd>
230
231    <dt><a href="http://www.iplt.org"><b>IPLT</b></a></dt>
232
233    <dd>
234      <a href="mailto:ansgar.philippsen-at-unibas.ch">Ansgar Philippsen</a>
235      writes:
236
237      <blockquote>
238        IPLT is an image processing library and toolbox for the structural
239        biology electron microscopy community. I would call it a
240        budding/evolving project, since it is currently not in production
241        stage, but rather under heavy development. Python is used as the main
242        scripting/interaction level, but also for rapid prototyping, since
243        the underlying C++ class library is pretty much fully exposed via
244        boost.python (at least the high-level interface). The combined power
245        of C++ and Python for this project turned out to be just awesome.
246      </blockquote><br>
247      &nbsp;
248    </dd>
249
250    <dt><a href=
251    "http://www.procoders.net/pythonmagick"><b>PythonMagick</b></a></dt>
252
253    <dd>PythonMagick binds the <a href=
254    "http://www.graphicsmagick.org">GraphicsMagick</a> image manipulation
255    library to Python.<br>
256    &nbsp;</dd>
257
258    <dt><a href="http://www.vpython.org"><b>VPython</b></a></dt>
259
260    <dd>
261      <a href="mailto:Bruce_Sherwood-at-ncsu.edu">Bruce Sherwood</a> writes:
262
263      <blockquote>
264        VPython is an extension for Python that makes it easy to create
265        navigable 3D animations, which are generated as a side effect of
266        computational code. VPython is used in education for various
267        purposes, including teaching physics and programming, but it has also
268        been used by research scientists to visualize systems or data in 3D.
269      </blockquote><br>
270      &nbsp;
271    </dd>
272  </dl>
273
274  <h3>Scientific Computing</h3>
275
276  <dl class="page index">
277    <dt><a href="http://camfr.sourceforge.net"><b>CAMFR</b></a></dt>
278
279    <dd>
280      CAMFR is a photonics and electromagnetics modelling tool. Python is
281      used for computational steering.
282
283      <p><a href="mailto:Peter.Bienstman@rug.ac.be">Peter Bienstman</a>
284      writes:</p>
285
286      <blockquote>
287        Thanks for providing such a great tool!
288      </blockquote>
289    </dd>
290
291    <dt><a href="http://cctbx.sourceforge.net"><b>cctbx - Computational
292    Crystallography Toolbox</b></a></dt>
293
294    <dd>
295      Computational Crystallography is concerned with the derivation of
296      atomic models of crystal structures, given experimental X-ray
297      diffraction data. The cctbx is an open-source library of fundamental
298      algorithms for crystallographic computations. The core algorithms are
299      implemented in C++ and accessed through higher-level Python interfaces.
300
301      <p>The cctbx grew together with Boost.Python and is designed from the
302      ground up as a hybrid Python/C++ system. With one minor exception,
303      run-time polymorphism is completely handled by Python. C++ compile-time
304      polymorphism is used to implement performance critical algorithms. The
305      Python and C++ layers are seamlessly integrated using Boost.Python.</p>
306
307      <p>The SourceForge cctbx project is organized in modules to facilitate
308      use in non-crystallographic applications. The scitbx module implements
309      a general purpose array family for scientific applications and pure C++
310      ports of FFTPACK and the L-BFGS quasi-Newton minimizer.</p>
311    </dd>
312
313    <dt><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/emsolve"><b>EMSolve</b></a></dt>
314
315    <dd>EMSolve is a provably stable, charge conserving, and energy
316    conserving solver for Maxwell's equations.<br>
317    &nbsp;</dd>
318
319    <dt><b><a href="http://cern.ch/gaudi">Gaudi</a></b> and <b><a href=
320    "http://cern.ch/Gaudi/RootPython/">RootPython</a></b></dt>
321
322    <dd>
323      Gaudi is a framework for particle physics collision data processing
324      applications developed in the context of the LHCb and ATLAS experiments
325      at CERN.
326
327      <p><a href="mailto:Pere.Mato@cern.ch">Pere Mato Vila</a> writes:</p>
328
329      <blockquote>
330        We are using Boost.Python to provide scripting/interactive capability
331        to our framework. We have a module called "GaudiPython" implemented
332        using Boost.Python that allows the interaction with any framework
333        service or algorithm from python. RootPython also uses Boost.Python
334        to provide a generic "gateway" between the <a href=
335        "http://root.cern.ch">ROOT</a> framework and python
336
337        <p>Boost.Python is great. We managed very quickly to interface our
338        framework to python, which is great language. We are trying to
339        facilitate to our physicists (end-users) a rapid analysis application
340        development environment based on python. For that, Boost.Python plays
341        and essential role.</p>
342      </blockquote>
343    </dd>
344
345    <dt><b><a href="http://www.esss.com.br">ESSS</a></b></dt>
346
347    <dd>
348      ESSS (Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software) is a company that
349      provides engineering solutions and acts in the brazilian and
350      south-american market providing products and services related to
351      Computational Fluid Dynamics and Image Analysis.
352
353      <p><a href="mailto:bruno@esss.com.br">Bruno da Silva de Oliveira</a>
354      writes:</p>
355
356      <blockquote>
357        Recently we moved our work from working exclusively with C++ to an
358        hybrid-language approach, using Python and C++, with Boost.Python
359        providing the layer between the two. The results are great so far!
360      </blockquote>
361
362      <p>Two projects have been developed so far with this technology:</p>
363
364      <p><b><a href=
365      "http://www.esss.com.br/index.php?pg=dev_projetos">Simba</a></b>
366      provides 3D visualization of geological formations gattered from the
367      simulation of the evolution of oil systems, allowing the user to
368      analyse various aspects of the simulation, like deformation, pressure
369      and fluids, along the time of the simulation.</p>
370
371      <p><b><a href=
372      "http://www.esss.com.br/index.php?pg=dev_projetos">Aero</a></b> aims to
373      construct a CFD with brazilian technology, which involves various
374      companies and universities. ESSS is responsible for various of the
375      application modules, including GUI and post-processing of results.</p>
376    </dd>
377
378    <dt><b><a href="http://www.rationaldiscovery.com">Rational Discovery
379    LLC</a></b></dt>
380
381    <dd>
382      Rational Discovery provides computational modeling, combinatorial
383      library design and custom software development services to the
384      pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical industries. We do a substantial
385      amount of internal research to develop new approaches for applying
386      machine-learning techniques to solve chemical problems. Because we're a
387      small organization and chemistry is a large and complex field, it is
388      essential that we be able to quickly and easily prototype and test new
389      algorithms.
390
391      <p>For our internal software, we implement core data structures in C
392      and expose them to Python using Boost.Python. Algorithm development is
393      done in Python and then translated to C if required (often it's not).
394      This hybrid development approach not only greatly increases our
395      productivity, but it also allows "non-developers" (people without C
396      experience) to take part in method development. Learning C is a
397      daunting task, but "Python fits your brain." (Thanks to Bruce Eckel for
398      the quote.)</p>
399    </dd>
400  </dl>
401
402  <h3>Systems Libraries</h3>
403
404  <dl>
405    <dt><a href="http://itamarst.org/software"><b>Fusion</b></a></dt>
406
407    <dd>
408      <p>Fusion is a library that supports implementing protocols in C++ for
409      use with Twisted, allowing control over memory allocation strategies,
410      fast method calls internally, etc.. Fusion supports TCP, UDP and
411      multicast, and is implemented using the Boost.Python python
412      bindings.</p>
413
414      <p>Fusion is licensed under the MIT license, and available for download
415      from <a href=
416      "http://itamarst.org/software">http://itamarst.org/software</a>.</p>
417    </dd>
418  </dl>
419
420  <h3>Tools</h3>
421
422  <dl>
423    <dt><a href="http://www.jayacard.org"><b>Jayacard</b></a></dt>
424
425    <dd>
426      Jayacard aims at developing a secure portable open source operating
427      system for contactless smart cards and a complete suite of high quality
428      development tools to ease smart card OS and application development.
429
430      <p>The core of the smart card reader management is written in C++ but
431      all the development tools are written in the friendly Python language.
432      Boost plays the fundamental role of binding the tools to our core smart
433      card reader library.</p>
434    </dd>
435  </dl>
436  <hr>
437
438  <p>Revised
439  <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->
440   15 July, 2003</p>
441
442  <p><i>&copy; Copyright <a href="../../../people/dave_abrahams.htm">Dave
443  Abrahams</a> 2002-2003.</i></p>
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