Putting on a Good Show with HDF5, ILNumerics, and PowerShell
Gerd Heber, Haymo Kutschbach · 2011
In this article, we describe how a simple combination of three freely available tools — HDF5, ILNumerics, and PowerShell — can be used to analyze and visualize data stored in HDF5 files (on Windows). There are other excellent free choices that achieve the same (or more), but this particular combination brings together an unexpected cast of characters. This article should be of interest to HDF5 users on Windows, PowerShell fans, and people who have doubts about the utility of managed runtimes (such as .NET) for numerical calculations and visualization. Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches. 1. When shall we three meet againe? In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? 2. When the Hurley burley's done, When the Battaile's lost, and wonne. 3. That will be ere the set of Sunne. —Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Macbeth.