FieldAnimation Python Package Documentation

Foreword

FieldAnimation has been developed by two programmers working in the Aerial Operations group of the IRI Research Section at OGS - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale.

Python is their favourite programming language since 2006.

The authors:

Nicola Creati, Roberto Vidmar

What is FieldAnimation?

It is a Python package to represent vector fields through particles that move along the flow lines of the field at a speed and color proportional to its modulus.

A background image can be shown to add information for the interpretation of the results.

An example application with interactive control of speed, color and number of animated particles is available in the examples direcory.

FieldAnimation in a nutshell

• create a fieldanimation.FieldAnimation instance
• call its fieldanimation.FieldAnimation.draw method in the main rendering loop

Dependencies

It relies on PyOpenGL and numpy. The rendering of the OpenGL image must be carried out by a library that handles windows, input and events like GLFW or PyQt.

More

• 1. FieldAnimation Package Reference:
  • 1.1. shader Module
  • 1.2. texture Module
• 2. An example application
• 3. How it works
  • 3.1. Particle tracing algorithm

Warning

This code has been tested only on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10) but should work also on Mac and Windows.

Warning

This is work in progress!

Indices and Tables

• Index
• Module Index