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Hi all,

In 2007 I wrote did some research on the VPM-B algorithm for my
BSc in Applied Physics thesis. As part of this research I wrote an
implementation of VPM-B in the Python programming language. At that
time I was planning to launch an open source project called OpenDeco
to create an open implementation that could be used and audited by
anyone with knowledge of the mechanics behind VPM-B. Unfortunately after
graduation I have been extremely busy and I didn't even have much time
for diving. I'm currently living in Beijing which is also not the best
place to get wet.

Instead of letting this information sit on my hard drive awaiting
a moment I will have time to polish up the code and thesis for
publication, I decided to post it here as is in case it is useful to
you. The code is released under the GNU LGPL license, I will release
the documentation with its LaTeX sources under a license that allows
modification once I find a proper license for that (suggestions are
welcome).

A word of warning:
1) This is not a nice usable graphical decompression planner that 
   you can use to plan you dives. It's a library other programmers 
   could use to build one.
2) This implementation has not received much peer review yet, so 
   DO NOT DIVE THE GENERATED SCHEDULES. The generated schedules vary 
   slightly from both V-Planner and Erik Baker's code and might even 
   be rubbish in extreme cases.

So why care?
1) It is open source, anyone can improve on it.
2) It's more readable than Fortran code.
3) The way it's constructed allows for easy plotting of all kinds of 
   parameters that might be interesting if you want to get a better 
   feeling for how VPM-B works unlike other planners that are only 
   focusing on spitting out a runtime table.
4) The thesis tries to give a good overview of how VPM works and is 
   more comprehensive than many documents that are scattered across 
   the internet.
5) The thesis documents the code with references to the actual code 
   the theory is implemented in.

You can find it at http://home.wojas.nl/opendeco/

I hope it's useful to you.

Cheers,
Konrad