[yt-dev] IPython 2.0 widgets

Sam Skillman samskillman at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 12:01:08 PST 2014


John,

I'm thinking the exact same thing. I'm going to sprint on this later today.

Sam


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:23 AM, John Wise <jwise at physics.gatech.edu>wrote:

> That's amazing, Nathan!  Nice work showing off some of the new features in
> IPython 2.0.  One small note for people not on unitrefactor... "density" ->
> "Density", and it worked flawlessly.
>
> I think this opens up a lot of interactive possibilities.  Interactive
> volume rendering in a notebook would be my favorite :)  If you could have a
> widget with a transfer function editor, a viewpoint widget, and a camera
> path widget, I'd be golden.  Then once everything looks good, then you
> could have the option to render the HD version.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>
> On 02/13/2014 02:43 AM, Nathan Goldbaum 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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