[FLASH-USERS] Open Source alternative to IDL

[Clément Robert]

Hi all,
Since yt has been presented as “not GUI”, I’d like to emphasise that there are ways to use yt in a GUI:
There’s yt-idv for interactive volume rendering: https://pypi.org/project/yt-idv/ <https://pypi.org/project/yt-idv/>
And there’s a new plugin for napari (https://napari.org <https://napari.org/>) right here: https://pypi.org/project/yt-napari/ <https://pypi.org/project/yt-napari/>
Cheers
Clément

> On 21 May 2022, at 14:47, OShea, Brian <oshea at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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://gnudatalanguage.github.io/>;  https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl <https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl>; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Data_Language <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
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> From: flash-users <flash-users-bounces at flash.rochester.edu <mailto:flash-users-bounces at flash.rochester.edu>> on behalf of Ryan Farber <rjfarber at umich.edu <mailto:rjfarber at umich.edu>>
> Date: Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 5:40 AM
> To: Tom <madtom1999 at googlemail.com <mailto:madtom1999 at googlemail.com>>
> Cc: "flash-users at flash.rochester.edu <mailto:flash-users at flash.rochester.edu>" <flash-users at flash.rochester.edu <mailto: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,
> --------
> 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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