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In the world of academic tomography codes, Colin Zelt’s FAST is one of the most well-known and widely-used. This is for good reason, since it works well, it has been thoroughly tested, and it’s written in pure Fortran (i.e. it’s fast). It’s so widely used, in fact, that I think the argument can be made that it’s more standardized (in the academic world) than the integrated seismic processing suites like ProMAX (or GLOBE Claritas!). When collaborating with other researchers, it’s nice to share first-arrival picks, but emailing a ~60GB SEG-Y file doesn’t … Continue Reading

I’ve been playing with Subversion; quite a handy tool. I have used CVS in the past, but I like that Subversion feels much cleaner. To me it’s very much the standard these days. Some colleagues with whom I’m collaborating have a repository, and I feel like I’ve been over-using the commit / comment function.

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