Develop engineering, scientific, and other similar projects by means of automated prototyping and quick data processing. Access the codeless interface to external C/C++/FORTRAN content, parallel and distributed algorithm development, advanced volume and 3D visualization capabilities.
Download of FreeMat 4.2 for Mac was on the developer's website when we last checked. We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this app available. The most popular versions of the application are 4.1 and 4.0. The program lies within Education Tools, more precisely Science. We recommend checking the downloaded files with any free antivirus. The actual developer of this free software for Mac is freemat team.
From the developer:
FreeMat is a free environment for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing. It is similar to commercial systems such as MATLAB from Mathworks, and IDL from Research Systems, but is Open Source. FreeMat includes several novel features such as a codeless interface to external C/C++/FORTRAN code, parallel/distributed algorithm development (via MPI), and plotting and visualization capabilities.
You may want to check out more Mac applications, such as Magic Number, gephi or Sage, which might be similar to FreeMat.
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