[yt-users] Surface plot from FITS data cube

[Mairan Teodoro]

Hi yt-users!

I'm new to yt and Python (I'm an IDL guy).

Currently, I'm using VisIt to visualize my FITS data cube. However, since I'm wandering through the fields of Python, I would really like to use yt as my default visualization tool.

Having said that, I would like to ask if somebody out there has some piece of code to read a FITS data cube into a Python array (I know how to do this already) and use yt to visualize it and make iso-surface plots (like the ones I've attached to this message). I went through the yt manual examples (especially the volume plot sections) but all I've got was some kind of blurred blotch (see figure "UniformGridData_volume_rendered.png").

Any help would be very appreciated.

Best regards!
m.

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