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

Kent-Andre Mardal wrote:
> man, 23,.04.2007 kl. 15.19 +0200, skrev Anders Logg:
> > 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).
>
> I agree with Anders. 
>
> With Viper you get your plot up in less than one second, whereas 
> with MayaVi and ParaView you need to wait for the huge libraries to be
> loaded, then  click several buttons etc. in the GUI. I know MayaVi is
> scriptable, but  I don't think it is as convenient as Viper. I use Viper
> during debugging and development, and MayaVi or ParaView when I need
> more advanced features. 

Fine with me to add it. Just throwing up some food for thought.

Garth


> Kent
>
>
>
>
> > > >   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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