pyvista4dolfinx 0.9.0

Re-introduction of a simple plot function for Dolfinx.

pyvista4dolfinx

Re-introduction of a simple plot function for Dolfinx. Documentation can be found here.

Description

FEniCSx' design principles prioritize parallel efficiency, and (in an effort to avoid opaque performance pitfalls) favor fine-grained control over a high-level interface. Consequently, simple, general-purpose plotting routines are no-longer in the standard library. Instead users are deferred to pyvista for their plotting needs. Unfortunately, quite a bit of boiler-plate code is required to interface dolfinx and pyvista. At a prototyping stage one often desires quick-and-dirty visualization with a simple interface. To facilitate this, pyvista4dolfinx provides a single plot function that can be used to plot most of dolfinx visualizable data-structures; scalar- and vector-valued Function, Mesh, FacetMarker, and even integration Measure. The function returns a pyvista.Plotter instance, such that the user still has full access to pyvista's full range of capabilities.

Installation

This library is available through PyPi, to install simply run the following commands:

pip install pyvista4dolfinx

Contributing

Feel free to make requests through opening an issue, or, better yet, if you want to contribute directly:

1. Fork the project.
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/my-feature).
3. Add your new feature or bugfix.
4. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature').
5. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/my-feature).
6. Open a merge request.