MICRESS Forum

Hi,

I wondered if there is already a Python API available to generate the input file. I have in mind to launch series of simulation varying some parameters and automatically analyzing the results. So it would be useful to have an API. If not, I guess that I will just edit my template input file to modify the specific parameters but it would not be as clean and reusable.

No, there is no general Python API for generating input available. Would be very complex to implement that, I think.

Of course, we made already parameter studies by Python scripts.
I prefer to use place holders in a driving file template and write a script which instances this template with a specific set of parameter in a new driving file, e.g. <cellsx> becomes 100. That's just string replacement and not to complex.

I do not know of published scripts for reading results in general either.
In future, we might publish some work we have done internally. But that is not decided, yet.

For now, I recommend to write VTK results and use the PyVTK package to get NumPy arrays from the results.
See also this project on GitHub for plotting a fraction table in a Jupyter notebook:
https://github.com/lukas-koschmieder/micress-ipynb

More to come!

Ralph

Thanks for your answer.
Yes it would be complex to develop an API so I thought it's better to ask before starting to plan ahead.

We have used PyVTK and I agree that it is an easy way to exploit further the results from Micress.

Thanks for the Jupyter Notebook.
Just one comment, I needed to add the following lines to make the plot visible:
import plotly.io as pio
pio.renderers.default='notebook'

Thanks! I will forward this to Lukas.

Ralph