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This sounds like the kind of work that most people I know would choose matlab for (image segmentation). I personally have never used either for such, but do you
by Arelius 15y ago
This sounds like the kind of work that most people I know would choose matlab for (image segmentation). I personally have never used either for such, but do you have any thoughts on the matter? Is Mathematica getting better at the things matlab used to be best at?
- spitfire 15y agoIt sort of comes down to what you're comfortable with. In this case, the strict image analysis parts were more minor compared to the real work. Also, Matlab seems to be stagnating, while Mathematica has been growing by leaps and bounds. Also, matlab doesn't have built in functionality for gui building, afaik. A lot of my other work is much less suited to matlab. Mathematica is certainly much better for multi-domain work, which matlab barely supports.
- taliesinb 15y agoI think most people you are know are just ignorant of how much better Mathematica is. It's okay. People like to stick to what they know.
- Arelius 15y agoBeing more of a software engineer than a mathematician, and having no MatLab experience, and more basic Mathematica experience. That is, in fact, the the impression that I get. But I still see people using MatLab what seems like more often, and have no weight to backup my claim. I suppose I could learn both and do research, but in general, that seems so less important than getting actual work done. One aspect that seems to be brought up about MatLab often is the community, it's often claimed, especially in the co punter vision world, that if an algorithm exists, it has an available implementation in MatLab source. Which seems significant.