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Pizza.py is a loosely integrated collection of tools written in Python, many of which provide pre- and post-processing capability for the LAMMPS molecular dynamics package.

This is the Pizza.py (1 Oct 2006) software package.

Copyright (2005) Sandia Corporation. Under the terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License.


Pizza.py is a loosely integrated collection of tools written in Python, many of which provide pre- and post-processing capability for the LAMMPS molecular dynamics package. There are tools to create input files, convert between file formats, process log and dump files, create plots, and visualize and animate simulation snapshots.

Pizza.py was developed at Sandia National Laboratories, a US Department of Energy facility, with funding from the DOE. It is an open-source code, distributed freely under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

The maintainer of Pizza.py is Steve Plimpton, who can be emailed at [email protected]. The Pizza.py WWW site (www.cs.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/lammps.html) and LAMMPS WWW Site (www.cs.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/lammps.html) have more information about the code and its uses.

The Pizza.py (1 Oct 2006) distribution includes the following files and directories:

README this file LICENSE the GNU open-source license doc HTML documentation for Pizza.py examples scripts and data sets that exercise Pizza.py tools scripts various Pizza.py script files src source code for Pizza.py and its tools

Point your browser at any of these files to get started:

doc/Manual.html the Pizza.py manual doc/Section_intro.html hi-level introduction to Pizza.py doc/Section_install.html how to install Pizza.py