[yt-users] Spherical coordinates

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Joseph,

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Joseph Smidt <josephsmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt,
>
>    Thank you. Do you mind if I test the capability?

Of *course* not!  My worry is only that you'll develop a script that
then gets the API rug pulled out from under it, or that maybe results
in an as-yet unknown error.


> For instance, if
> I have a uniform grid of r, theta, phi and rho, is there a current API
> (subject to change) to test how well yt handles this data that I can
> use to give feedback?

Yup!  In the current tip of yt-3.0, you should be able to load this in
by specifying it in r, theta, phi coordinates to load_uniform_grid and
supplying the argument geometry="spherical".  Slice plots, etc, should
be able to work properly, although projections will not.

> If people want to wait until the code is mature
> before such tests are done that's fine. But if you would like me to
> test on some uniform data I would be happy to. Just let me know the
> current lines I would need to execute to do this.  Else I will wait.
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Joseph Smidt <josephsmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>>     This blog post [1] makes it look like if you have the latest hg
>> tip of yt you might be able to do slices of data in spherical
>> coordinates.  Could someone explain how with a simple example since I
>> don't see any documentation? Thanks.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://blog.yt-project.org/post/WhatsUpWith30.html
>>
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