sihm 0.0.1

Standalone Interactive HTML Movie (SIHM).

Standalone Interactive HTML Movie (SIHM)

A highly-portable, interactive way to visualize your simulations.

Summary | Installation guide

For now, a quick example of sihm's output can be found here.

Summary

This package provides sihm, a command-line tool that takes a YAML file (planning to support other types in the future) that defines geometry and properties of that geometry—position, velocity, color, etc.—vs. time and turns it into a standalone, interactive HTML movie.

• The output is a movie in the sense that the trajectories vs. time are fixed. You'll be able to pause, play, rewind, loop, etc. as a movie would.
• The output is interactive because you can move the camera around while the video is playing (or paused). You can also "attach" the camera to an object and follow that object around the sim.
• The output is a standalone HTML file, i.e., it is the only file you will need to run the interactive movie.
• HTML was selected because it is extermely portable. The output should work anywhere: Linux, Mac, Windows, your cell phone, etc.

Installation

Linux

• Install either the rpm or deb package, depending on you OS.

Mac / Windows

• Install the system dependencies
  • yarn
  • nodejs >= 16
  • cmake
• Install the python package: pip install sihm
• If you want tab completion on Mac, then copy the appropriate file from the bin folder into the appropriate spot. Tab completion is available for bash and zsh.