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<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>This is a partial list of projects using Boost.Python. If you are
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<h3>Data Analysis</h3>
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<dt><b><a href=
"http://www.neuralynx.com">NeuraLab</a></b></dt>
<dd>Neuralab is a data analysis environment specifically tailored for
neural data from <a href="http://www.neuralynx.com">Neuralynx</a>
acquisition systems. Neuralab combines presentation quality graphics, a
numerical analysis library, and the <a href=
"http://www.python.org">Python</a> scripting engine in a single
application. With Neuralab, Neuralynx users can perform common analysis
tasks with just a few mouse clicks. More advanced users can create
custom Python scripts, which can optionally be assigned to menus and
mouse clicks.</dd>
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<dt><b>TSLib</b> - <a href="http://www.fortressinv.com">Fortress
Investment Group LLC</a></dt>
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Fortress Investment Group has contracted <a href=
"http://www.boost-consulting.com">Boost Consulting</a> to develop
core internal financial analysis tools in C++ and to prepare Python
bindings for them using Boost.Python.
<p>Tom Barket of Fortress writes:</p>
<blockquote>
We have a large C++ analytical library specialized for research in
finance and economics, built for speed and mission critical
stability. Yet Python offers us the flexibility to test out new
ideas quickly and increase the productivity of our time versus
working in C++. There are several key features which make Python
stand out. Its elegance, stability, and breadth of resources on the
web are all valuable, but the most important is its extensibility,
due to its open source transparency. Boost.Python makes Python
extensibility extremely simple and straightforward, yet preserves a
great deal of power and control.
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<h3>Educational</h3>
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<dt><a href="http://edu.kde.org/kig"><b>Kig</b></a></dt>
<dd>
<p>KDE Interactive Geometry is a high-school level educational tool,
built for the KDE desktop. It is a nice tool to let students work
with geometrical constructions. It is meant to be the most intuitive,
yet featureful application of its kind.</p>
<p>Versions after 0.6.x (will) support objects built by the user
himself in the Python language. The exporting of the relevant
internal API's were done using Boost.Python, which made the process
very easy.</p>
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<h3>Enterprise Software</h3>
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<dt><b><a href="http://openwbem.sourceforge.net">OpenWBEM</a></b></dt>
<dd>
The OpenWBEM project is an effort to develop an open-source
implementation of Web Based Enterprise Management suitable for
commercial and non-commercial application
<p><a href="mailto:dnuffer@sco.com">Dan Nuffer</a> writes:</p>
<blockquote>
I'm using Boost.Python to wrap the client API of OpenWBEM.This will
make it easier to do rapid prototyping, testing, and scripting when
developing management solutions that use WBEM.
</blockquote>
</dd>
<dt><b><a href="http://www.transversal.com">Metafaq</a></b></dt>
<dd>
Metafaq, from <a href="http://www.transversal.com">Transversal,
Inc.</a>, is an enterprise level online knowledge base management
system.
<p><a href="mailto:ben.young-at-transversal.com">Ben Young</a>
writes:</p>
<blockquote>
Boost.Python is used in an automated process to generate python
bindings to our api which is exposed though multiple backends and
frontends. This allows us to write quick tests and bespoke scripts
to perform one off tasks without having to go through the full
compilation cycle.
</blockquote>
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<h3>Games</h3>
<dl>
<dt><b><a href="http://www.firaxis.com">Civilization IV</a></b></dt>
</dl>
<blockquote>
“The fourth game in the PC strategy series that has
sold over five million copies, Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a bold
step forward for the franchise, with spectacular new 3D graphics and
all-new single and multiplayer content. Civilization IV will also set a
new standard for user-modification, allowing gamers to create their own
add-ons using Python and XML.
<p>Sid Meier's Civilization IV will be released for PC in late 2005.
For more information please visit <a href=
"http://www.firaxis.com">http://www.firaxis.com</a> or write <a href=
"mailto:kgilmore@firaxis.com">kgilmore@firaxis.com</a>”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Boost.Python is used as the interface layer between the C++ game code
and Python. Python is used for many purposes in the game, including map
generation, interface screens, game events, tools, tutorials, etc. Most
high-level game operations have been exposed to Python in order to give
modders the power they need to customize the game.</p>
<blockquote>
-Mustafa Thamer, Civ4 Lead Programmer
</blockquote>
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<dt><b><a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega
Strike</a></b></dt>
<dd>
<a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega Strike</a> is the 3D
Space Simulator that allows you to trade and bounty hunt in a vast
universe. Players face dangers, decisions, piracy, and aliens.
<p><a href="http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net">Vega Strike</a> has
decided to base its scripting on python, using boost as the layer
between the class hierarchy in python and the class hierarchy in C++.
The result is a very flexible scripting system that treats units as
native python classes when designing missions or writing AI's.</p>
<p>A large economic and planetary simulation is currently being run
in the background in python and the results are returned back into
C++ in the form of various factions' spaceships appearing near worlds
that they are simulated to be near in python if the player is in the
general neighborhood.</p>
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<h3>Graphics</h3>
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<dt><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyosg">OpenSceneGraph
Bindings</a></b></dt>
<dd><a href="mailto:gideon@computer.org">Gideon May</a> has created a
set of bindings for <a href=
"http://www.openscenegraph.org">OpenSceneGraph</a>, a cross-platform
C++/OpenGL library for the real-time visualization.<br>
</dd>
<dt><b><a href=
"http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/ek/hippodraw/index.html">HippoDraw</a></b></dt>
<dd>
HippoDraw is a data analysis environment consisting of a canvas upon
which graphs such as histograms, scattter plots, etc, are prsented.
It has a highly interactive GUI interface, but some things you need
to do with scripts. HippoDraw can be run as Python extension module
so that all the manipulation can be done from either Python or the
GUI.
<p>Before the web page came online, <a href=
"mailto:Paul_Kunz@SLAC.Stanford.EDU">Paul F. Kunz</a> wrote:</p>
<blockquote>
Don't have a web page for the project, but the organization's is <a
href=
"http://www.slac.stanford.edu">http://www.slac.stanford.edu</a>
(the first web server site in America, I installed it).
</blockquote>
Which was just too cool a piece of trivia to omit.<br>
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<dt><a href="http://www.iplt.org"><b>IPLT</b></a></dt>
<dd>
<a href="mailto:ansgar.philippsen-at-unibas.ch">Ansgar Philippsen</a>
writes:
<blockquote>
IPLT is an image processing library and toolbox for the structural
biology electron microscopy community. I would call it a
budding/evolving project, since it is currently not in production
stage, but rather under heavy development. Python is used as the
main scripting/interaction level, but also for rapid prototyping,
since the underlying C++ class library is pretty much fully exposed
via boost.python (at least the high-level interface). The combined
power of C++ and Python for this project turned out to be just
awesome.
</blockquote>
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</dd>
<dt><a href=
"http://www.procoders.net/pythonmagick"><b>PythonMagick</b></a></dt>
<dd>PythonMagick binds the <a href=
"http://www.graphicsmagick.org">GraphicsMagick</a> image manipulation
library to Python.<br>
</dd>
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<h3>Scientific Computing</h3>
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<dt><a href="http://camfr.sourceforge.net"><b>CAMFR</b></a></dt>
<dd>
CAMFR is a photonics and electromagnetics modelling tool. Python is
used for computational steering.
<p><a href="mailto:Peter.Bienstman@rug.ac.be">Peter Bienstman</a>
writes:</p>
<blockquote>
Thanks for providing such a great tool!
</blockquote>
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://cctbx.sourceforge.net"><b>cctbx - Computational
Crystallography Toolbox</b></a></dt>
<dd>
Computational Crystallography is concerned with the derivation of
atomic models of crystal structures, given experimental X-ray
diffraction data. The cctbx is an open-source library of fundamental
algorithms for crystallographic computations. The core algorithms are
implemented in C++ and accessed through higher-level Python
interfaces.
<p>The cctbx grew together with Boost.Python and is designed from the
ground up as a hybrid Python/C++ system. With one minor exception,
run-time polymorphism is completely handled by Python. C++
compile-time polymorphism is used to implement performance critical
algorithms. The Python and C++ layers are seamlessly integrated using
Boost.Python.</p>
<p>The SourceForge cctbx project is organized in modules to
facilitate use in non-crystallographic applications. The scitbx
module implements a general purpose array family for scientific
applications and pure C++ ports of FFTPACK and the LBFGS conjugate
gradient minimizer.</p>
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/emsolve"><b>EMSolve</b></a></dt>
<dd>EMSolve is a provably stable, charge conserving, and energy
conserving solver for Maxwell's equations.<br>
</dd>
<dt><b><a href="http://cern.ch/gaudi">Gaudi</a></b> and <b><a href=
"http://cern.ch/Gaudi/RootPython/">RootPython</a></b></dt>
<dd>
Gaudi is a framework for particle physics collision data processing
applications developed in the context of the LHCb and ATLAS
experiments at CERN.
<p><a href="mailto:Pere.Mato@cern.ch">Pere Mato Vila</a> writes:</p>
<blockquote>
We are using Boost.Python to provide scripting/interactive
capability to our framework. We have a module called "GaudiPython"
implemented using Boost.Python that allows the interaction with any
framework service or algorithm from python. RootPython also uses
Boost.Python to provide a generic "gateway" between the <a href=
"http://root.cern.ch">ROOT</a> framework and python
<p>Boost.Python is great. We managed very quickly to interface our
framework to python, which is great language. We are trying to
facilitate to our physicists (end-users) a rapid analysis
application development environment based on python. For that,
Boost.Python plays and essential role.</p>
</blockquote>
</dd>
<dt><b><a href="http://www.esss.com.br">ESSS</a></b></dt>
<dd>
ESSS (Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software) is a company
that provides engineering solutions and acts in the brazilian and
south-american market providing products and services related to
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Image Analysis.
<p><a href="mailto:bruno@esss.com.br">Bruno da Silva de Oliveira</a>
writes:</p>
<blockquote>
Recently we moved our work from working exclusively with C++ to an
hybrid-language approach, using Python and C++, with Boost.Python
providing the layer between the two. The results are great so far!
</blockquote>
<p>Two projects have been developed so far with this technology:</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.esss.com.br/index.php?pg=dev_projetos">Simba</a></b>
provides 3D visualization of geological formations gattered from the
simulation of the evolution of oil systems, allowing the user to
analyse various aspects of the simulation, like deformation, pressure
and fluids, along the time of the simulation.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.esss.com.br/index.php?pg=dev_projetos">Aero</a></b>
aims to construct a CFD with brazilian technology, which involves
various companies and universities. ESSS is responsible for various
of the application modules, including GUI and post-processing of
results.</p>
</dd>
<dt><b><a href="http://www.rationaldiscovery.com">Rational Discovery
LLC</a></b></dt>
<dd>
Rational Discovery provides computational modeling, combinatorial
library design and custom software development services to the
pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical industries. We do a substantial
amount of internal research to develop new approaches for applying
machine-learning techniques to solve chemical problems. Because we're
a small organization and chemistry is a large and complex field, it
is essential that we be able to quickly and easily prototype and test
new algorithms.
<p>For our internal software, we implement core data structures in C
and expose them to Python using Boost.Python. Algorithm development
is done in Python and then translated to C if required (often it's
not). This hybrid development approach not only greatly increases our
productivity, but it also allows "non-developers" (people without C
experience) to take part in method development. Learning C is a
daunting task, but "Python fits your brain." (Thanks to Bruce Eckel
for the quote.)</p>
</dd>
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<h3>Systems Libraries</h3>
<dl>
<dt><a href="http://itamarst.org/software"><b>Fusion</b></a></dt>
<dd>
<p>Fusion is a library that supports implementing protocols in C++
for use with Twisted, allowing control over memory allocation
strategies, fast method calls internally, etc.. Fusion supports TCP,
UDP and multicast, and is implemented using the Boost.Python python
bindings.</p>
<p>Fusion is licensed under the MIT license, and available for
download from <a href=
"http://itamarst.org/software">http://itamarst.org/software</a>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<h3>Tools</h3>
<dl>
<dt><a href="http://www.jayacard.org"><b>Jayacard</b></a></dt>
<dd>
Jayacard aims at developing a secure portable open source operating
system for contactless smart cards and a complete suite of high
quality development tools to ease smart card OS and application
development.
<p>The core of the smart card reader management is written in C++ but
all the development tools are written in the friendly Python
language. Boost plays the fundamental role of binding the tools to
our core smart card reader library.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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<p>Revised
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15 July, 2003</p>
<p><i>© Copyright <a href="../../../people/dave_abrahams.htm">Dave
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