Failing to start a fight

A recent paper by Davide Punzo et al. describes the importance of 3D software in analysing astronomical data sets, particularly neutral hydrogen. They do a good job of this. However, it also contains the statement :

"A recent development is the use of the open source software Blender for visualization of astronomical data (Kent, 2013; Taylor et al., 2014), but this application is more suitable for data presentation rather than interactive data analysis."

Let's just say I vented my, err, displeasure at this rather misleading statement quite loudly and privately to many and various colleagues. It was also the only mention of my work (which has taken 3 years and runs into 11,000 lines of code) in the whole paper.

So in the astro-ph article below, I redress the balance and give a full account of FRELLED. It can already do some of things Punzo et al. want HI viewers to be able to do. And so it should : unlike the software they reviewed, FRELLED was designed to view HI data. That's what it's for.

Anyway, this is already getting a very positive response, with invites to post this on Wolfang Burg's 3D Astrophysics blog which I wasn't aware of before, but looks very nice, and to the peer-reviewed journal Astronomy and Computing which Punzo et al. published in. Even Punzo admits :
"Thank you very much for the preview of your submission to astro-ph. We think it is a fair representation of FRELLED's capabilities, and advantages and shortcomings in the context of the criteria we mentioned in our paper. "

So unlike most "comment on" astro-ph articles I've been utterly unsuccessful in provoking a fight, but maybe that's for the best. :)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04621