[FLASH-USERS] Open Source alternative to IDL

[OShea, Brian]

I second both of those options – particularly yt, if your needs lean more toward analysis.  If you’re heavily invested in IDL you may also wish to consider the GNU Data Language (GDL; https://gnudatalanguage.github.io/;  https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Data_Language), which is intended to be an open source alternative to IDL.  I don’t have personal experience with it, but it seems to be actively developed.

Regards,
Brian

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Brian W. O’Shea (he/him/his)
Michigan State University
http://www.pa.msu.edu/~osheabr

Professor,
  Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
  Department of Physics and Astronomy
  National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Director, Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research
  http://icer.msu.edu/
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From: flash-users <flash-users-bounces at flash.rochester.edu> on behalf of Ryan Farber <rjfarber at umich.edu>
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 5:40 AM
To: Tom <madtom1999 at googlemail.com>
Cc: "flash-users at flash.rochester.edu" <flash-users at flash.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: [FLASH-USERS] Open Source alternative to IDL

Hi Tom,

The HDF5 outputs generated by FLASH should be generically accessible. For open source alternatives to IDL, I mostly use the python package yt^1 although I previously used Visit^b, which is perhaps nicer if you prefer a GUI experience. Probably there are a lot more options.

^a: https://yt-project.org/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/yt-project.org/__;!!HXCxUKc!zMiA6rDpdb5hFgVmEiZAV7beSbzsWg3rV0nV8P7lVfwRKAZ0wKzx4WOdmCqdRZSwLUSIbhRghrmZRNPs$>
^b: https://hpc.llnl.gov/software/visualization-software/visit<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/hpc.llnl.gov/software/visualization-software/visit__;!!HXCxUKc!zMiA6rDpdb5hFgVmEiZAV7beSbzsWg3rV0nV8P7lVfwRKAZ0wKzx4WOdmCqdRZSwLUSIbhRghq-V56a1$>

Best,
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Ryan


On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 11:17 AM Tom <madtom1999 at googlemail.com<mailto:madtom1999 at googlemail.com>> wrote:
I have seen several other free HDF5 viewers. Is it possible to configure
FLASH to produce output suitable for these?

Tom

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