John Omotani

About the grid file for testing: Indeed don't want to add a binary file to the install, so would be a test that only runs from the source repo. We...

> Oh sorry, I misread. I thought you wanted to only add the method if it is an fci dataset. That would be complicated! Probably should add some check that...

I think with this PR the errors are gone with the latest xarray versions, but a significant slow-down is still there. I suspect the culprit is in the region operations...

I've started working on some plotting using K3D-jupyter... Watch this space! (also get #107 and #108 merged :wink: )

A couple of previews with TORPEX simulation data...   Unfortunately, github won't let me put the interactive html version in these comments!

Haven't had a chance to dig into any more features yet! I found one example that let me replicate Fabio's mayavi implementation for the top fig, and then the second...

Tom found another potentially interesting 3d visualisation library: https://blog.jupyter.org/ipygany-jupyter-into-the-third-dimension-29a97597fc33?gi=65070678f5e5

In case anyone ever gets a chance to pick this up, the branch that I was working on is here https://github.com/boutproject/xBOUT/tree/plot3d. The 3d plotting stuff is in new functions, so...

An alternative approach has been developed here: https://github.com/DomLonghorn/SciViPy/blob/main/SciViPy/bout_cartesian_convert.py

BOUT++ is LGPL, I think for historical reasons... I think the preference for new code would be GPLv3 (see HERMES, SD1D, STORM), unless we want to include any code that's...