powerbox 0.5.7

Create arbitrary boxes with isotropic power spectra

Make arbitrarily structured, arbitrary-dimension boxes and log-normal mocks.

powerbox is a pure-python code for creating density grids (or boxes) that have an arbitrary two-point distribution (i.e. power spectrum). Primary motivations for creating the code were the simple creation of log-normal mock galaxy distributions, but the methodology can be used for other applications.

Features

• Works in any number of dimensions.

• Really simple.

• Arbitrary isotropic power-spectra.

• Create Gaussian or Log-Normal fields

• Create discrete samples following the field, assuming it describes an over-density.

• Measure power spectra of output fields to ensure consistency.

• Seamlessly uses pyFFTW if available for ~double the speed.

Installation

powerbox only depends on numpy >= 1.6.2, which will be installed automatically if powerbox is installed using pip (see below). Furthermore, it has the optional dependency of pyfftw, which if installed will offer ~2x performance increase in large fourier transforms. This will be seamlessly used if installed.

To install pyfftw, simply do:

pip install pyfftw

To install powerbox, do:

pip install powerbox

Alternatively, the bleeding-edge version from git can be installed with:

pip install git+git://github.com/steven-murray/powerbox.git

Finally, for a development installation, download the source code and then run (in the top-level directory):

pip install -e .

Acknowledgment

If you find powerbox useful in your research, please cite the Journal of Open Source Software paper at https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00850.

QuickLinks

• Docs: https://powerbox.readthedocs.io

• Quickstart: http://powerbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/demos/getting_started.html