plato-draw 1.1.0

Geometry and visualization tools for collections of particles

Plato is designed for efficient visualization of particle data. Think of it sort of like matplotlib, but being less focused on 2D plotting.

Installation

Plato is available on PyPI for installation via pip:

$ pip install plato-draw --user

You can also install plato from source, like this:

$ git clone https://bitbucket.org/glotzer/plato.git
$ # now install
$ cd plato && python setup.py install --user

Note

If using conda or a virtualenv, the –user argument in the commands above is unnecessary.

Plato contains a number of backends, each with its own set of dependencies. Getting the vispy backend working for both the desktop and jupyter notebook can be tricky. To help users install its dependencies, we keep some advice here regarding particular known-good versions of dependencies for pip and conda.

Documentation

The documentation is available as standard sphinx documentation:

$ cd doc
$ make html

Automatically-built documentation is available at https://plato-draw.readthedocs.io .

Examples

Several usage examples are available. Many simple, but less interesting, scenes can be found in the test demo scene script. Somewhat less transparent examples can be found in the plato-gallery repository.