Integration with `yt`

[Yurlungur]

It strikes me that it would be extremely easy to use kuibit as the backend for loading data into yt to enable, e.g., volume rendering. In fact, volume rendering a uniform grid, after resampling in kuibit should work essentially out of the box.

This isn't a feature request, just a suggestion for a straightforward enhancement, should you decide you want volume rendering.

[Sbozzolo]

Yes, this is a good point and something I definitely have thought about. At the moment (version 1.0.0) kuibit doesn't provide any function to make visualizations: it is up to the user to use the tools they prefer to visualize the data. Modules for plotting will be added to kuibit in a future release and the experimental branch contains already some basic integration with matplotlib and mayavi. It is likely that yt will become another of the supported backends for visualization.

[Sbozzolo]

I have some 3D data (attached here--zipped) that I wanted to render and I tried to do it with yt. In my quick tests, I couldn't get much out of yt (but I've never used the tool before and I didn't try too hard).

This is what how I visualize the data with mayavi:

from kuibit.grid_data_utils import load_UniformGridData
from numpy import log10 

data = load_UniformGridData("rhob.xyz.npz")
mlab.contour3d(*data.coordinates_from_grid(as_same_shape=True),
                           log10(data.data), transparent=True)

And this is the output:

I don't know how to get something similar with yt.

I leave this data here, in case anyone with more experience with yt wants to try to play with it and help integrating the tool with kuibit.

[Yurlungur]

I might be able to get something out of yt. I will try to find the time to give it a shot.

[matthewturk]

@Yurlungur If you want a hand, let me know!