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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> Two questions:
>
>   1. Are there any objections to making Viper an official project?

In principle no, but ParaView III (which is under development)
and MayaVi 2 (which has a much improved user interface) both use VTK and 
have a Python interface, so I wonder if it would be better to use these 
existing packages.

>   2. Has anyone tried it out?

Yes, a while ago. I found it a bit hard to use as I didn't know the key 
bindings. Some documentation on this would be nice.

> For more information about Viper, take a look here:
>
>     http://www.fenics.org/wiki/Viper
>
> To try it out just
>
>     hg clone http://www.fenics.org/dev/viper
>     cd viper
>     sudo python setup.py install
>
> Then you should be able to run the Poisson demo in DOLFIN and plot the
> solution with "python plot.py" which just loads the function and
> calls the plot() command in PyDOLFIN (wrapped from Viper).
>
> /Anders
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