[yt-dev] IPython 2.0 widgets

John ZuHone jzuhone at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 05:54:02 PST 2014


Hi Nathan,

Fabulous! I played around with it and it's neat. 

Something I've long wanted to do is to draw a line interactively on a plot and return a profile (a "ray" in our context) from that line. I suppose we might be able to do something like that?

Best,

John

On Feb 13, 2014, at 2:43 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I want to share a cool notebook I just made with you all. It uses an
> IPython 2.0 javascript widget to interactively control a yt SlicePlot.
> Since the widget needs to talk to a live kernel, you'll need to run
> the notebook locally to get the full awesomeness.
> 
> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/ngoldbaum/8971185
> 
> This took me all of ten minutes to set up based on Fernando's example
> [1] and works pretty much out of the box with IPython 2.0.
> 
> I highly encourage you to clone the IPython repo and test out the new
> version on the master branch. I think this will open up a lot of room
> for interactivity and discovery with yt's plot objects.
> 
> -Nathan
> 
> [1] https://twitter.com/fperez_org/status/433856794436194304
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