[yt-users] SPH from generic particle stream?

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Jonah Miller <
jonah.maxwell.miller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi yt-users,
>
> I haven't received a response yet, so I thought I'd try again and ask an
> even more basic question: are data streams for SPH data even supported?
>

Not right now, no. In principle it should be possible but I think it will
require some modifications to load_particles so the SPH fields are
generated. See:

https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues/1062/add-example-for-loading-an-sph-dataset


> And if not, is there a front-end I should try to look at to mimic? Perhaps
> the Gadget fronted?
>

Sure, look at any of the SPH frontends. Note that there's some stuff common
to all the SPH frontends in yt.frontends.SPH


>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best,
> Jonah Miller
>
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016, 5:49 PM Jonah Miller <jonah.maxwell.miller at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi yt-users,
>>
>> I'm trying to play around with yt for SPH type data (there's no frontend
>> for this code). I found out how to load generic particle data via the
>> load_particle_data stream
>> (
>> http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/examining/generic_particle_data.html#generic-particle-data
>> )
>> and I found some information on SPH type data
>> (http://yt-project.org/doc/analyzing/fields.html#sph-fields) but I can't
>> seem to figure out how to tell yt that I have a smoothing length and a
>> particle I want to smooth. Is there a way to do this?
>>
>> I attach a non-working script showing roughly what I'm trying to do.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Best,
>> Jonah
>>
>
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