Orange Blog

By: AJDA, Oct 10, 2016

The Story of Shadow and Orange

This is a long story. I remember when started my PhD in Italy. There I met a researcher and he said to me: »You should do some simulations on x-ray optics beamline.« »Yes, but how should I do that?« He gave me a big tape, it was 1986. I soon realized it was all code. But it was a code called Shadow. I started to look at the code, to play with it, do some simulations… Soon my boss told me:

Categories: canvas interface oasys

By: AJDA, May 20, 2016

Oasys: Orange Canvas applied to Optical Physics

This week we’re hosting experts in optical physics from Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in our laboratory. For a long time they have been interested in developing a user interface that integrates different simulation tools and data analysis software within one environment. It all came true with Orange Canvas and the OASYS system. We’ve already written about this two years ago, when the idea first came up. Now the actual software is ready and is being used by researchers for everyday analysis and prototyping.