[sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-13 Thread Jason Moore
Tarun's making good progress on the pydy viz package. The python code is basically done and he's working on the js stuff now. https://github.com/PythonDynamics/pydy-viz Couple of questions for the group: 1. Where should this package belong? Options are: in sympy.physics.mechanics in a standalo

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-13 Thread Matthew Rocklin
On what subset of SymPy does PyDy and sympy.mechanics rely? How stable is this subset? On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Jason Moore wrote: > Tarun's making good progress on the pydy viz package. The python code is > basically done and he's working on the js stuff now. > > https://github.com/Py

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-13 Thread Jason Moore
Once GSoC ends it will rely on a brand new vector calculus package that Prasoon is working on, so not so stable. But right now, it relys on SymPy pieces like Symbol, taking derivatives, Matrices, substitutions and replacements. Gilber could comment more fully as he knows the code base best. Jaso

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-13 Thread Jason Moore
I think a new PyDy distribution may be the way to go too, not sure about the timing yet. We can still interact with SymPy and contribute just as much as the past but we do throw away this feature of being part of SymPy: Any changes made to SymPy must pass our tests. This has been very valuable so

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-13 Thread Matthew Rocklin
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Jason Moore wrote: > I think a new PyDy distribution may be the way to go too, not sure about > the timing yet. We can still interact with SymPy and contribute just as > much as the past but we do throw away this feature of being part of SymPy: > > Any changes ma

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-13 Thread Jason Moore
Yes, for now we could just package SymPy with PyDy as a git submodule. Then change the namespace so you from pydy import ReferenceFrame, etc and from pydy.visualization import VisualizationFrame We'd still have: from sympy import symbols But at least it would be one package. Jason moorepant

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-13 Thread Aaron Meurer
It's not too hard to make Travis test against the git version of SymPy, so that you will know right away when the tests break. We could also add PyDy tests to our own Travis tests. The question I would ask is, how active do you expect the development to be, especially after this summer? Aaron Meu

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-13 Thread Jason Moore
I don't there is any way to know how active the development will be. We presented it at two conferences for the first time in the last couple of months and have some people showing interest because of that. But for now it is just the core devs side project and we use it in our research. Jason moo

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-13 Thread Ondřej Čertík
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Jason Moore wrote: > I don't there is any way to know how active the development will be. We > presented it at two conferences for the first time in the last couple of > months and have some people showing interest because of that. But for now it > is just the cor

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-13 Thread Aaron Meurer
It's worth pointing out that the key to it being active is not so much whether or not you yourself plan to work on it, but rather how much of a community you are able to build around it. If you really encourage contributions from the people who have shown interest, then I think it will be successfu

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-16 Thread Jason Moore
Ok, I've started this repo: https://github.com/PythonDynamics/PyDy I'll be working on getting it into shape so that we can have one installer for the PyDy distribution and it will contain SymPy mechanics and the new visualization package. You'll be able to do things like: from pydy import mechan

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-16 Thread Dale Lukas Peterson
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Jason Moore wrote: > Ok, I've started this repo: https://github.com/PythonDynamics/PyDy > > I'll be working on getting it into shape so that we can have one installer > for the PyDy distribution and it will contain SymPy mechanics and the new > visualization pack

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-16 Thread Aaron Meurer
We should also hopefully be in shape if not now pretty soon to release pretty much whenever, so it should hopefully be possible to just rely on the latest version, and if you need something from git, to just push a new version out. I say "if not now pretty soon" because it seems that currently the

Re: [sympy] Where is PyDy Viz?

2013-08-18 Thread Jason Moore
Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Dale Lukas Peterson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Jason Moore wrote: > >> Ok, I've started this repo: https://github.com/PythonDynamics/PyDy >> >> I'll be working on getting it into shape so that we can have one