[yt-dev] [yt-users] Volume rendering refactor now available in dev branch

Sam Skillman samskillman at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 21:39:39 PST 2015


Hey Cameron, all,
Thanks for your effort on this, again.  Really speaks to the awesomeness of
you all.
Cheers,
Sam

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:29 AM Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey yt community,
>
> Over the last two years, there has been an ongoing effort led by Sam
> Skillman to refactor the volume rendering (VR) code for making volumetric
> images using radiative transfer models on simulation outputs.  Because it's
> such a large functional change to the codebase, all of these commits have
> been kept in the `experimental` head on the dev branch of yt up until now.
> A month ago, there was a code sprint at SLAC where Matt, Nathan, Suoqing,
> Andrew, Kacper, Ji-hoon, Sam, and I worked hard in getting the new VR code
> ready for release to the larger community.  While this code still needs
> work before it can go into the next stable version of yt (3.3), we've now
> merged the code into the main development head, and we invite users to try
> out this functionality to see how well it works for their own datasets.
>
> For a full description of the new volume rendering interface and how to
> use it, please see the narrative docs, new cookbook recipes, and annotated
> example.  For more background on where we'd like this functionality to go
> in the future, see the YTEP.
>
> VR Docs: http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/visualizing/volume_rendering.html
> Cookbook (search for Volume Rendering):
> http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/cookbook/index.html
> Annotated Example of VR usage:
> http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/visualizing/volume_rendering_tutorial.html
> VR YTEP: http://ytep.readthedocs.org/en/latest/YTEPs/YTEP-0010.html
>
> To get access to this new VR functionality, you have to be on the
> development (ie "yt") branch and using the most recent changeset (ie
> "tip").  For information on how to switch branches, see:
> http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/installing.html#switching-versions-of-yt-yt-2-x-yt-3-x-stable-and-dev
> .  If you wish to continue to use the old VR interface, it will remain
> available in the yt/visualization/volume_rendering/old_camera.py file.
>
> Thanks to all of the hard work by the developers who helped get this out!
>
> Cameron
>
> --
> Cameron Hummels
> NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
> Department of Astronomy
> California Institute of Technology
> http://chummels.org
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