[yt-dev] yt astro analysis

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Joseph Smidt <josephsmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just wanted to say, even though I never commit to the repository so
> probably shouldn't respond to a dev email :), that you guys are amazing.
> YT has probably saved the average person who uses it *years* of analysis
> time, and the ease at which you have transitioned to a platform without
> drama is equally impressive. It also has made it so that every year I have
> summer students, they can produce results on day one which is worth its
> weight in gold.
>
> The only mistake I think you have made over the years is to have drinken
> the maplotlib koolaid and adopted a default colorscale that looks like a
> green version of greyscale. But I realize this koolaid involves the
> superiority you feel when reduce the eye to a linear algebra system (like
> any good nerdish koolaid should) and so I not going to debate the point
> other than to say: you guys are amazing.  You have saved the world
> countless hours and have made the barrier to entry such that nobody need
> waste any time.
>

Just a comment: If you don't like the default yt colormap you can configure
it in your yt configuration file:

http://yt-project.org/doc/reference/configuration.html#the-configuration-file

using the default_colormap configuration option. The name of the old
default is "algae". We switched away from algae because it is not
perceptually uniform.


>
> So here's to a long and wonderful future via github.
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:50 PM Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Britton,
>>
>> Thanks for taking this on.  I think this is a great idea, and really
>> happy to see you doing it!
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Now that yt development has moved to github, I want to bring up an
>>> opportunity for some smaller yt-related development projects.
>>>
>>> As some of you may know, it was decided a couple months ago that most of
>>> the code in the analysis_modules directory will be moved to various
>>> external repositories to allow them to be developed separately from the
>>> main yt codebase.  The rough timeline for this is to have all analysis
>>> modules marked as deprecated by the release of yt-3.4 and fully removed
>>> (and in a separate, pip-installable repo) by yt-4.0.
>>>
>>> The initial extraction of the analysis modules has now been done and can
>>> be found here:
>>> https://github.com/yt-project/yt_astro_analysis
>>>
>>> To be clear, the analysis modules are still present in yt, but this repo
>>> contains only those modules.  The revision history has also been
>>> maintained.  Anyway, there are a number of small tasks that must be
>>> completed before this package becomes the replacement for yt's analysis
>>> modules.  I will begin adding issues on github for all these.  If anyone is
>>> interested in helping out with this, just come talk to me on the yt slack
>>> channel or feel free to just dig in and start issuing PRs.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Britton
>>>
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