[yt-users] Release of pywwt 0.1.0, a Python interface to the World Wide Telescope Windows Client

[Anthony Scopatz]

This is Cool, John!

Can you share this on G+ with Scientific Python?

Be Well
Anthony


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:11 PM, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Apologies for the spam, but I thought maybe the yt-users list would be
> good place to find some interest in this new library I wrote, pywwt:
>
> http://www.jzuhone.com/pywwt
>
> pywwt is a Python interface for the Microsoft World Wide Telescope (WWT,
> http://www.worldwidetelescope.org) Windows client, using the Layer
> Control API (LCAPI). The LCAPI provides an interface to WWT’s Layer Manager
> by sending data and information in the form of strings over
> HTTP. pywwt provides a straightforward Python interface to make these
> calls, enabling the control of WWT from scripts or an IPython notebook.
> Most importantly, it enables the passing of data created within a Python
> environment to WWT.
>
> The upshot of this is that particle data that can be loaded into yt can be
> passed off to a World Wide Telescope client running on a Windows machine,
> either the same host or a host on the same network.
>
> To see an example IPython notebook (complete with an example video!),
> visit: http://www.jzuhone.com/pywwt/pywwt_example.html
>
> pywwt requires the following packages:
>
> • NumPy
> • Matplotlib
> • AstroPy
>  • Beautiful Soup 4
> • Requests
> • Dateutil
>
> pywwt can be installed from pip:
>
> pip install pywwt
>
> or download the source from http://github.com/jzuhone/pywwt and install:
>
> python setup.py install
>
> My use cases are limited, and I'd be interested in what others could do
> with it, so if you are interested please fork the code and help develop!
>
> Best,
>
> John Z
>
>
>
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