[vtk-developers] minimization: vtkFunctionMinimizer

[Rasmus Reinhold Paulsen]

Yes! Please please!

/Rasmus

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, David Gobbi wrote:

> We've had a VTK simplex (i.e. amoeba) optimization class kicking
> around for a couple years, and just recently we replaced the old
> Numerical Recipes amoeba code with some free code.
> 
> The way it works is that you set a function (C++, Python, Tcl),
> specify initial parameter ranges, and tell it to minimize the
> function.
> 
> If there is enough interest, I'll commit it to the Hybrid directory.
> Unfortunately much of the old C code doesn't follow VTK coding
> conventions, so I'll have to spend a fair bit of time reformatting
> and changing variable names before I can commit it.