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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:25:13PM +0200, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Viper has a somewhat different focus. It is just a minimal plot()
command that can be used either for postprocessing or interactively
during a computation. At least before, the Python bindings for MayaVi
have been difficult to use and you always get the GUI (not just the
plot).

> >   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.

I'm sure that can be arranged. Ola?

/Anders


> > 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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