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     I just went and got the latest version of dstool, which I'd heard
about, set it up on my system (Sparc 1 running SunOS 4.1.2/OW 3.0),
added my favourite equations (sinusoidally-forced SEIR (epidemiology/chaos)).
Everything works fine.
     *However* there wasn't as much functionality as I'd thought.  I'm
certainly not complaining ... the interface is very pretty and extensible.
I'm not really an X-hacker, though, and I had been hoping that things like
(e.g.) bifurcation diagram windows, 3-D windows (which I understand are under
development), and particularly things like local Lyapunov exponent calculation
were going to be in there.  As it stands dstool is fun but not much use to me,
and I don't think I have the time or the skill to do major enhancements.
   So the question is: do people out there have, or know of, publicly-available
extensions to dstool?  As I hinted above I'm particularly interested in 
nonlinear toys--correlation dimension analyzers, local divergence/Lyap.
exponent calculators, perhaps nonlinear forecasting code--and ways of
generating bifurcation diagrams.
   Or is there more functionality in kaos?  One person thought there might
be but wasn't sure.
   I'd like to emphasize that I am *not* bitching at the developers for what
they have/have not done.  What's there is fine, it's just not advanced enough
for what I want to do/have the time and knowledge to do myself.  If I can't
find dstool stuff I'll just write the necessary pieces in boring old c code.
   Replies by e-mail, I'll summarize if I get anything interesting.

  Ben Bolker
  bmb11@cus.cam.ac.uk (internet), uk.ac.cam.cus (JANET): Dep't of Zoology

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Benjamin Bolker
bmb11@cus.cam.ac.uk (Internet), bmb11@uk.ac.cam.cus (JANET)