<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi all,</div><div class="">Since yt has been presented as “not GUI”, I’d like to emphasise that there are ways to use yt in a GUI:</div><div class="">There’s yt-idv for interactive volume rendering: <a href="https://pypi.org/project/yt-idv/" class="">https://pypi.org/project/yt-idv/</a></div><div class="">And there’s a new plugin for napari (<a href="https://napari.org" class="">https://napari.org</a>) right here: <a href="https://pypi.org/project/yt-napari/" class="">https://pypi.org/project/yt-napari/</a></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class="">Clément</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 May 2022, at 14:47, OShea, Brian <<a href="mailto:oshea@msu.edu" class="">oshea@msu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://gnudatalanguage.github.io/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://gnudatalanguage.github.io/</a>; <a href="https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Data_Language" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Data_Language</a>), 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.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Brian<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">Brian W. O’Shea (he/him/his)<br class="">Michigan State University<br class=""><a href="http://www.pa.msu.edu/~osheabr" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.pa.msu.edu/~osheabr</a><br class=""><br class="">Professor,<br class=""> Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering<br class=""> Department of Physics and Astronomy<br class=""> National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory<br class=""><br class="">Director, Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research<br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://icer.msu.edu/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://icer.msu.edu/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">---------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">flash-users <<a href="mailto:flash-users-bounces@flash.rochester.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">flash-users-bounces@flash.rochester.edu</a>> on behalf of Ryan Farber <<a href="mailto:rjfarber@umich.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">rjfarber@umich.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 5:40 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Tom <<a href="mailto:madtom1999@googlemail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">madtom1999@googlemail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:flash-users@flash.rochester.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">flash-users@flash.rochester.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:flash-users@flash.rochester.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">flash-users@flash.rochester.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [FLASH-USERS] Open Source alternative to IDL<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi Tom,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">^a: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/yt-project.org/__;!!HXCxUKc!zMiA6rDpdb5hFgVmEiZAV7beSbzsWg3rV0nV8P7lVfwRKAZ0wKzx4WOdmCqdRZSwLUSIbhRghrmZRNPs$" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://yt-project.org/</a><br class="">^b: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/hpc.llnl.gov/software/visualization-software/visit__;!!HXCxUKc!zMiA6rDpdb5hFgVmEiZAV7beSbzsWg3rV0nV8P7lVfwRKAZ0wKzx4WOdmCqdRZSwLUSIbhRghq-V56a1$" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://hpc.llnl.gov/software/visualization-software/visit</a><br clear="all" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Best,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">--------<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Ryan<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 11:17 AM Tom <<a href="mailto:madtom1999@googlemail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">madtom1999@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;" class="" type="cite"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I have seen several other free HDF5 viewers. 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