Installation

Pythia is available on PyPI as pythia-learn:

$ pip install pythia-learn freud-analysis

You can install pythia from source like this:

$ git clone https://github.com/glotzerlab/pythia.git
$ # now install
$ cd pythia && python setup.py install --user

Citation

In addition to the citations referenced in the docstring of each function, we encourage users to cite the pythia project itself.

Documentation

The documentation is available as standard sphinx documentation:

$ cd doc
$ make html

Automatically-built documentation is available at https://pythia-learn.readthedocs.io .

Usage

In general, data types follow the hoomd-blue schema:

• Positions are an Nx3 array of particle coordinates, with (0, 0, 0) being the center of the box

• Boxes are specified as an object with Lx, Ly, Lz, xy, xz, and yz elements

• Orientations are specified as orientation quaternions: an Nx4 array of (r, i, j, k) elements

Examples

Example notebooks are available in the examples directory:

• Unsupervised learning

• Supervised learning

• Steinhardt and Pythia order parameter comparison (FCC and HCP)