QAntenna is a multiplatform Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), released under the GPL. It's aim is to provide to the scientific community with a program to view and analyze antennas and their radiation patterns.
The program was written originally to fulfil two objectives:
- create a libre software to allow students to have a tool to analyze antennas at no cost -
- to present it as a final work for the subject Principios de Computadoras II, Electronic Engineering grade course at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina.
Because at the university there's a variety of OSs running, the software is designed to be multiplatform. As the original programmers were Linux and KDE desktop users following a curse on OO programming, the idea to use Trolltech's Qt 5 libraries were thought as the most appropiate for the project.
The program was first intended to be a direct replacement for Antennavis, written in Tcl/Tk.
As Antennavis' source code wasn't written in an OO language, it was decided to write QAntenna from scratch. The visualization would be created using OpenGL, the standard for multiplatform visualization programs.
Dependencies:
- Qt >= 5
- Glut
- nec2++