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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Robert,<br>
Rick,<br>
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we are also very interested to have VPM running on a real diving
computer; that's one reason, we build our oDiCo project based on a
CORTEX M4 kernel, we are using a STM32F4, that has a build in FPU
to speed up floating point operations.<br>
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We think it is very important for divers to know about the deco
modell they are diving with. In former times Bühlmann's model was
well documented and dive computers, like the ALADIN, worked close
related to the diving tables based an the Bühlmann model.<br>
When diving with modern deco models, like Suunto's RGBM, I am
always in doubt about the "thoughts" of my diving computer,
because these modern models are closed shop, no way to check the
proper operation.<br>
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We think it is time for the open source idea also in diving
computers, for the planning of a dive as well as for the dive
itself in real time.<br>
An good structured, well documented open source implementation of
VPM-B as a C-Lib would have the chance to get a proven modern
bubble deco algorithms, that could be used in desktop computers
and also in diving computers.<br>
I could be evaluated by a lots of peoples ...<br>
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Your comments?<br>
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Tom<br>
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Am 14.03.2015 um 14:27 schrieb Robert C. Helling:<br>
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<div class="">part of the project is (at least from my
perspective) not to somehow embed the FORTRAN code into
subsurface but to attempt a rewrite as hopefully that would
clear up how the algorithm works (the original program is very
much in a spaghetti tradition) and would document it better in
that way. If we achieve that, copyright might not so much be an
issue only possibly patents (which do not exist for VPM-B as far
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<div class="">Robert</div>
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