yt Feature List

Here's a non-comprehensive feature list:

  • Data Objects
    • Arbitrary data objects (Spheres, cylinders, rectangular prisms, arbitrary index selection)
    • Covering grids for automatic ghost-zone generation
    • Identification of topologically-connected sets in arbitrary fields
    • Projections, orthogonal slices, oblique slices
    • Axially-aligned rays
    • Memory-conserving 1-, 2- and 3-D profiles of arbitrary fields.
    • Halo-finding (HOP) algorithm with full particle information and sphere access
  • Data access
    • Arbitrary field definition
    • Derived quantities (average values, spin parameter, bulk velocity, etc)
    • Fast-HDF5 backend for packed and unpacked AMR, NumPy?-based HDF4 backend
    • CGS units used everywhere
    • Per-user field and quantity plugins
  • Plotting
    • Mathtext TeX-like text formatting
    • Slices, projections, oblique slices
    • Profiles and phase diagrams
    • Linked zooms, colormaps, and saving
    • Contours, vector plots, annotated boxes, grid boundary plot overlays.
    • Simple 3D plotting of phase plots and volume-rendered boxes via hooks into the S2PLOT library
  • GUI
    • Linked zooming via slider
    • Interactive re-centering
    • Length scales in human-readable coordinates
    • Drawing of circles for generation of data objects and phase plots
    • Image saving
  • Command-line tools
    • Zooming movies
    • Time-series movies
    • Particle movies
    • Radial profile tool (#95)