Requirements

The module runs under Python3 and requires numpy and scipy.

For running some of the example code, the astropy library is used.

Installation

On unix-like systems do

pip3 install MegaScreen

or if that does not work because of file permission errors, then

sudo pip3 install MegaScreen

Alternatively download and unpack a copy of this repository, change the working directory to this directory and then use

pip3 install -e .

This should install the package into the Python path.

Usage

See the documentation at http://megascreen.readthedocs.io/ for a description on how to use the module.

Licensing

The code in this repository is licenced under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0

(see LICENSE).

1.0.1

• Updated demos so they don’t crash with recent assert

• Demos can run without installing MegaScreen

• Streamlit demo app can run on Streamlit Share

1.0.0

• Added an assert to check that the size of a window does not exceed the size of a tweeter screen

• Removed restriction on dx and increased memory efficiency by allocating the minimum number of tiles needed

0.5.0:

• Added a numIter parameter to MegaScreen() to allow straightforward use in for loops

• All parameters to MegaScreen() now have default values to ease adoption

• Tidied up test code

• Added extensive documentation on http://megascreen.readthedocs.io