[yt-users] Particles in FLASH output

Yuan Li bear0980 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 11:56:32 PDT 2015


Hi Jason,

I had trouble with Flash particles last year, and John ZuHone fixed the
bug. Could you try the newest yt3 and see if the problem goes away?

Yuan

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jason Galyardt <jason.galyardt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nathan,
>
> I'm using yt version 3.0.2 (which I see is not quite current) on Debian 7
> (wheezy). I tried to pastebin the iPython error traceback, but it failed
> with a complaint that the MySQL server has 'gone away'. With apologies to
> the list, here's the traceback:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
> <ipython-input-49-3f118016da60> in <module>()
> ----> 1 p.annotate_particles((4.0,'kpc'))
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yt/visualization/plot_container.pyc
> in newfunc(*args, **kwargs)
>      68         rv = f(*args, **kwargs)
>      69         args[0]._plot_valid = False
> ---> 70         args[0]._setup_plots()
>      71         return rv
>      72     return newfunc
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yt/visualization/plot_window.pyc in
> _setup_plots(self)
>     860                 label.set_fontproperties(fp)
>     861
> --> 862             self.run_callbacks(f)
>     863
>     864             if draw_axes is False:
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yt/visualization/plot_container.pyc
> in run_callbacks(self, f)
>     313             CallbackMaker = callback_registry[name]
>     314             callback = CallbackMaker(*args[1:], **kwargs)
> --> 315             callback(cbw)
>     316         for key in self.frb.keys():
>     317             if key not in keys:
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yt/visualization/plot_modifications.pyc
> in __call__(self, plot)
>    1053         pt = self.ptype
>    1054         gg = ( ( reg[pt, field_x] >= x0 ) & ( reg[pt, field_x] <=
> x1 )
> -> 1055            &   ( reg[pt, field_y] >= y0 ) & ( reg[pt, field_y] <=
> y1 ) )
>    1056         if self.minimum_mass is not None:
>    1057             gg &= (reg[pt, "particle_mass"] >= self.minimum_mass)
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yt/data_objects/data_containers.pyc
> in __getitem__(self, key)
>     238                 return self.field_data[f]
>     239             else:
> --> 240                 self.get_data(f)
>     241         # fi.units is the unit expression string. We depend on the
> registry
>     242         # hanging off the dataset to define this unit object.
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yt/data_objects/data_containers.pyc
> in get_data(self, fields)
>     665
>     666         read_particles, gen_particles =
> self.index._read_particle_fields(
> --> 667                                         particles, self,
> self._current_chunk)
>     668         for f, v in read_particles.items():
>     669             self.field_data[f] = self.ds.arr(v, input_units =
> finfos[f].units)
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yt/geometry/geometry_handler.pyc in
> _read_particle_fields(self, fields, dobj, chunk)
>     232             self._chunk_io(dobj, cache = False),
>     233             selector,
> --> 234             fields_to_read)
>     235         return fields_to_return, fields_to_generate
>     236
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yt/utilities/io_handler.pyc in
> _read_particle_selection(self, chunks, selector, fields)
>     148         # Here, ptype_map means which particles contribute to a
> given type.
>     149         # And ptf is the actual fields from disk to read.
> --> 150         psize = self._count_particles_chunks(chunks, ptf, selector)
>     151         # Now we allocate
>     152         # ptf, remember, is our mapping of what we want to read
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yt/utilities/io_handler.pyc in
> _count_particles_chunks(self, chunks, ptf, selector)
>     119     def _count_particles_chunks(self, chunks, ptf, selector):
>     120         psize = defaultdict(lambda: 0) # COUNT PTYPES ON DISK
> --> 121         for ptype, (x, y, z) in self._read_particle_coords(chunks,
> ptf):
>     122             psize[ptype] += selector.count_points(x, y, z, 0.0)
>     123         return dict(psize.items())
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yt/frontends/flash/io.pyc in
> _read_particle_coords(self, chunks, ptf)
>      72                 start = p_ind[g1.id - g1._id_offset]
>      73                 end = p_ind[g2.id - g2._id_offset + 1]
> ---> 74                 x = np.asarray(p_fields[start:end, px],
> dtype="=f8")
>      75                 y = np.asarray(p_fields[start:end, py],
> dtype="=f8")
>      76                 z = np.asarray(p_fields[start:end, pz],
> dtype="=f8")
>
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/h5py/_hl/dataset.pyc in __getitem__(self,
> args)
>     312
>     313         # Perform the dataspace selection.
> --> 314         selection = sel.select(self.shape, args, dsid=self.id)
>     315
>     316         if selection.nselect == 0:
>
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/h5py/_hl/selections.pyc in select(shape,
> args, dsid)
>      92
>      93     sel = SimpleSelection(shape)
> ---> 94     sel[args]
>      95     return sel
>      96
>
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/h5py/_hl/selections.pyc in
> __getitem__(self, args)
>     259             return self
>     260
> --> 261         start, count, step, scalar =
> _handle_simple(self.shape,args)
>     262
>     263         self._id.select_hyperslab(start, count, step)
>
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/h5py/_hl/selections.pyc in
> _handle_simple(shape, args)
>     510     for arg, length in zip(args, shape):
>     511         if isinstance(arg, slice):
> --> 512             x,y,z = _translate_slice(arg, length)
>     513             s = False
>     514         else:
>
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/h5py/_hl/selections.pyc in
> _translate_slice(exp, length)
>     551         raise ValueError("Step must be >= 1 (got %d)" % step)
>     552     if stop == start:
> --> 553         raise ValueError("Zero-length selections are not allowed")
>     554     if stop < start:
>     555         raise ValueError("Reverse-order selections are not
> allowed")
>
> ValueError: Zero-length selections are not allowed
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Let me know if any other info would be useful.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Jason Galyardt <
>>> jason.galyardt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure I've just overlooked some bit of documentation, but I'm having
>>>> trouble plotting particles generated by FLASH on top of the gas density.
>>>> I've been able to load a plot file with the associated particle file via
>>>>
>>>> ds = yt.load(plotfileName, particle_filename=partfileName)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However, when I try to create a projection and annotate the particles
>>>> with
>>>>
>>>> p = yt.ProjectionPlot(ds, "y", "density")
>>>> p.annotate_particles(1.0)                      # ValueError!
>>>> # p.annotate_particles((4.0, 'kpc'))         # ValueError!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Can you pastebin the full error traceback?  Which yt version are you
>>> using?
>>>
>>
>> Forgot to mention that you can get precise version information by
>> executing "yt version" at the bash command line.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I get a ValueError from h5py indicating that zero-length selections are
>>>> not allowed. I have also tried passing the full width of the simulation
>>>> domain to the annotation function without success. I suspect that this is a
>>>> user error stemming from differences between the way that Enzo and FLASH
>>>> store particle data. However, I can't find much in the way of documentation
>>>> or examples for the FLASH particle data format.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, it would also be handy to be able to write my own analysis
>>>> scripts using both gas and particles, but for now, I'll settle for any help
>>>> I can get on simple plotting functionality.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jason Galyardt
>>>> Department of Physics and Astronomy
>>>> University of Georgia
>>>>
>>>>
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