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$Id: README,v 1.4 2005/03/22 06:28:56 paultcochrane Exp $ |
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Summary |
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Pyvisi is the Python visualisation interface: a generic Python-based interface |
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to many different scientific visualisation packages. |
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See http://pyvisi.sourceforge.net |
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Installation |
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Pyvisi is just a python module ... treat it as any other module |
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* Global Instalation |
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As root use |
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> python setup.py install |
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This will install the files, in the appropriate place for |
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your python distribution. This will be something like |
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e.g. /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ |
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* Local instalation: |
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You can supply the base directory using |
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> python setup.py install --home=<dir> |
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which will install the files in |
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<dir>/lib/python/ |
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for more help and options use |
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> python setup.py install --help |
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also see http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/ for more details on |
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using the distutils package |
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Dependencies |
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* Numeric package |
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Pyvisi does some computation, and to be able to do this requires the |
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Numeric python package. You can get this from |
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy |
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Pyvisi depends upon the relevant renderer module's application and/or python |
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wrappers to be installed so that the renderer module can be used. At |
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present, the vtk and gnuplot renderer modules are being developed. |
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* Gnuplot renderer module |
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You must have gnuplot installed (version 4.0 or above). You can get |
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gnuplot from http://www.gnuplot.info. |
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Note that gnuplot version 3 is no longer supported by pyvisi. |
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You must have the Gnuplot.py (version 1.7 or greater) python wrapper for |
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gnuplot. You can get this from http://gnuplot-py.sourceforge.net/. |
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* VTK renderer module |
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You must have vtk version 4.2 or above installed. You can get vtk from |
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http://www.vtk.org. |
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Note that when you install vtk, that you must install the python wrappers |
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as well (this is explained in the vtk installation information.) |
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