A c++ backed python optical raytracer.
https://jmeyers314.github.io/batoid/overview.html
Batoid is known to work on MacOS and linux, using Python version 3.4+, and either the clang or gcc compiler with support for c++11.
Released versions of batoid are available on pypi as source distributions. This means you will need at least c++14 compiler available and that setup.py can find it. This should hopefully be the case on most *nix systems, in which case, the following ought to work:
pip install batoid
If Pypi doesn't work, then you can try cloning the source from github and
running setup.py. One minor hiccup in this case is that the batoid repo
includes submodules for pybind11 and eigen, so when cloning for the
first time, a command similar to one of the following should be used
git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:jmeyers314/batoid.git
or
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/jmeyers314/batoid.git
Once the repo and the submodules have been cloned, then compile and install with
python setup.py install
or optionally
python setup.py install --user
To run the unit tests, from the batoid directory, first install the testing requirements
pip install -r test_requirements.txt
And then run the tests using setup.py
python setup.py test