[yt-dev] support for the pluto code in yt

[Andrew Myers]

Hi Antoine,

Thanks for your interest in developing the Pluto frontend! I added the
current Pluto frontend a while back (with support for Chombo-style HDF5
files only), but I don't think it was ever really used and has likely
fallen into disrepair as yt has evolved from 2.X to 3.0. It would be
awesome if you'd like to resurrect it and make it into a fully-supported
piece of yt.

Currently, there is a lot of code duplication between the pluto and chombo
frontends. If you are working with Chombo HDF5 outputs, it's likely that yt
3.0 can already load your datasets via the chombo frontend, but it won't
know things like what field names to expect in your dataset, or be able to
set up units properly.  To add support for these features, you probably
want to sub-class the ChomboHierarchy, ChomboDataset, and ChomboFieldInfo
classes found in frontends/chombo/data_structures.py and
frontends/chombo/fields.py. I'd be more than happy to help with this, if
you want.

If you're not working with the Chombo-style outputs, then I'm afraid I
won't be much help, and you'll have to create a new frontend from scratch.

At any rate, you should generally feel free to go to town on any of the
code in frontends/pluto, as I don't think anyone is relying on it.

-Andrew




On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Antoine Strugarek <
strugarek at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Hi yt-developers,
>
> I was originally interested in developing a frontend for the pluto code (
> http://plutocode.ph.unito.it/) since I am a regular user of this code,
> and I saw that many things for pluto were already there in yt but the pluto
> fronted was not activated in the frontends/api.py file (the line with
> ‘pluto’ is commented out). Do you know if in a more recent version of yt
> this has been finished up, or if it still in the process of being
> implemented? Thanks in advance,
>
> Antoine
>
>
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