coxeter 0.9.0

coxeter

Welcome to the documentation for coxeter! The coxeter Python library provides tools for working with common geometric objects in two and three dimensions. Named for the 20th century geometer best known for his work on polytopes, coxeter is especially focused on polygons and polyhedra, but it also support various standard curved shapes such as spheres and ellipsoids.

The package emphasizes working with shapes as mutable objects whose geometric attributes may be accessed using property-based APIs. Since coxeter originally arose to support representations of anisotropic nanoparticles, many shapes support calculations of physical properties (such as form factors and inertia tensors) in addition to purely geometric ones. However, the package is designed with more general audiences in mind as well, and it aims to support precise calculations of a wide range of geometric quantities that are useful in a number of fields.

Some core features of coxeter include:

• Libraries of common shapes to support easy construction.

• Mutable shape objects that can be rescaled in a variety of ways to suit a number of needs.

• Immediate access to geometric properties of shapes via Python properties of shape objects.

• Plotting functionality to make it easy to visualize shapes in both two and three dimensions.

More detailed information on coxeter’s features and examples of how to use them may be found in the documentation.

pip install coxeter --user

conda config --add channels conda-forge

conda install coxeter

git clone https://github.com/glotzerlab/coxeter.git
cd coxeter

pip install . # Install with no additional dependencies
pip install .[tests] # RECOMMENDED: Install with dependencies required to run pytests
pip install .[tests,doc] # Install all dependencies required to develop for coxeter

pip install -r tests/requirements.txt

pytest

pytest --cov=coxeter

pip install -r doc/requirements.txt
conda install -c conda-forge fresnel

cd doc
make html # For html output
make latexpdf # For a LaTeX compiled PDF file
open build/html/index.html

Support and Contribution

This package is hosted on GitHub. Please report any bugs or problems that you find on the issue tracker. All contributions to coxeter are welcomed via pull requests!