PICViewer

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PICViewer is a visualization GUI implemented on PyQt. The toolkit provides various easy-to-use functions for data analysis of Warp/WarpX simulations.

It works for both plotfiles and openPMD files.

Main features

  • 2D/3D openPMD or WarpX data visualization,

  • Multi-plot panels (up to 6 rows x 5 columns) which can be controlled independently or synchronously

  • Interactive mouse functions (panel selection, image zoom-in, local data selection, etc)

  • Animation from a single or multiple panel(s)

  • Saving your job configuration and loading it later

  • Interface to use VisIt, yt, or mayavi for 3D volume rendering (currently updating)

Required software

Installation

python3 -m pip install picviewer

You need to install yt and PySide separately.

You can install from the source for the latest update,

python3 -m pip install git+https://bitbucket.org/ecp_warpx/picviewer/

To install manually

  • Clone this repository

    git clone https://bitbucket.org/ecp_warpx/picviewer/
    
  • Switch to the cloned directory with cd picviewer and type python setup.py install

To run

  • You can start PICViewer from any directory. Type picviewer in the command line. Select a folder where your data files are located.

  • You can directly open your data. Move on to a folder where your data files ae located (cd [your data folder]) and type picviewer in the command line.

Note

We currently seek a new maintainer for PICViewer. Please contact us if you are interested.