/orix

Analysing crystal orientations and symmetry in Python

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orix is an open-source Python library for analysing orientations and crystal symmetry.

The package defines objects and functions for the analysis of orientations represented as quaternions and 3D rotation vectors, accounting for crystal symmetry. Functionality builds primarily on NumPy and Matplotlib. Initiation of the package was inspired by MTEX.

orix is released under the GPL v3 license.

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Documentation

Refer to the documentation for detailed installation instructions, a user guide, and the changelog.

Installation

orix can be installed with pip:

pip install orix

or conda:

conda install orix -c conda-forge

The source code is hosted in GitHub, and can also be downloaded from PyPI and Anaconda.

Further details are available in the installation guide.

Citing orix

If analysis using orix forms a part of published work please cite the paper (journal, arXiv) and the software.