KerrPy

An openCV based Python project for processing Kerr microscopy image. KerrPy is used to extract ellipse fits of bubble domains created under the application of out-of-plane and in-plane fields. These fits are used to estimate the underlying Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI)

Installation requirements

Anaconda (preferably 64 bit) for managing Python environments.
A Python environment
Installation of dependencies

Python environment : envKerr

Every Python project is recommended to have a separate python environment. There are two ways to create a new environment.

Through Navigator

A walkthrough of the installation is given in YouTube video of installation walkthrough

Activate the environment
Install packages in the environment

Packages

core packages	image processing packages	IDE packages
numpy	opencv	spyder
scipy
matplotlib

Anaconda maintains "channels" for storing repositories. Core packages are available in standard/default channel. So can be directly downloaded whereas opencv is present in "conda-forge" channel. conda-forge is a community maintained channel. The community is comprised mostly of researchers. So we need to add conda-forge channel to the environment.

Newer versions of Anaconda has opencv in the default channel So no need to add conda-forge However latest versions of opencv may not be supported in the default.

However we will install the default channel version.

command line way

through command line. Use the environment.yml in the top level directory.
```
  conda env create -f environmentKerrPy.yml
```
activate the environments
```
  conda activate envKerr
```