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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
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baseline;">We’re happy to announce a new web-based GUI for yt
called Reason (version five!). It incorporates the full
functionality of yt as well as several additional features that
should make using YT much more efficient and interactive. In
particular, new users and users working on remote machines (e.g.
kraken, ranger, pleaides, etc.) should find this new GUI very
useful as it allows one to interactively manipulate and visualize
non-local data.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
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font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">Reason operates by creating a portable webserver on
demand, which loads a javascript page bridging to the yt/python
interpreter. This page provides an interpreter interface, with
identical yt functionality, where created images/plots are posted
to the web interface. We’re still experimenting with how to
provide access to this, but it includes the ability to transfer
and directly display images, display widgets for interactive data
exploration, and save and load scripts between runs.</span><br>
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baseline;">To use Reason, you will need to have the ext-js and
ext-slate-theme packages, now included with the current install
script. You can also download these manually. Once installed,
start it by simply running:</span><br>
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font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">$ yt serve</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">If you are running locally and supply the -o option (yt
serve -o), it will open up a web browser automatically. There is
also a help button in the lower left of Reason with basic
functionality explained. Keep in mind that this is a BETA
sequence (projection doesn’t work yet), but please check it out,
play around with it, and report any bugs or desired features
missing from it. </span><br>
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baseline;">--Cameron Hummels, Jeff Oishi, Britton Smith & Matt
Turk</span>
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