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OpenMaX is a graphic platform for Computational Electromagnetics and Computational Optics on personal computers under Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista. We are working on a Linux version.

Copyright 2009, 2009 Christian Hafner, COG, IFH, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    OpenMaX is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

OpenMaX is based on the concept of MaX-1. It contains several tools similar to those of the MaX-1:

• advanced tools for the visualization and animation of functions and fields
• a movie directive language interpreter for generating complicated movies
• a simple formula interpreter for defining complex grids, fields, material properties, grid transformations, etc.
• the latest 2D and 3D MMP implementations for accurate semi-analytic computations
• Model-Based Parameter Estimation (MBPE) technique for fast evaluation of frequency  response
• standard 2D and 3D FDTD solvers
• Numerical optimizers designed for MaX-1 (evolutionary strategies, genetic algorithms, and many more!) may be combined with OpenMaX

FEM and other field solvers will be added later.

For more information on the theoretical background, see Ch. Hafner: Post-Modern Electromagnetics - Using intelligent Maxwell Solvers, published by John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.

Linux users

As long as the OpenMaX Linux version is not ready, you may run the OpenMaX Windows version under Linux using Wine. Proceed as follows:

1) Install wine. See, for example:
   http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Wine?highlight=win (German)
   https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine (Englisch)
2) Execute winecfg (see links above)
3) Copy the entire MaX-1 folder (e.g. MaXfolder) to the wine folder. For example: cp -r /media/c/MaXfolder ~/.wine/drive_c/Programs
4) start MaX-1 under wine (for example, when Max08c.exe is the MaX-1 version you have): wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/MaXfolder/Max08c.exe

Responsible for this web page:  Ch. Hafner, Computational Optics Group, IFH, ETH, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Last update 11.06.2009