Spacetime is a program that allows you to easily correlate microscopy images with some time-dependent external parameter like pressure, temperature, deposition rate, etc. It can directly show you what happened during a specific frame or even scan line. Since this program basically unifies space and time, what name could be more appropriate than Spacetime?
Spacetime can work with quite a few different data files, the most important type being LPM Camera .raw files. You can of course plot images from such a file, but you can also plot one or more channels as function of time, frequency (performing FFT) or versus another channel.
In addition, a couple of other data sources are implemented, mainly focusing on the gas control and analysis systems of the ReactorSTM and -AFM of the Interface Physics group at Leiden University. There is some support for plain text files as well.
The software is written in a very modular way and it's easy to add support for different data types. It's written in Python and runs on all common operating systems.
- Python 2.6 or later but not 3.x.
- numpy and scipy (probably any version will do)
- Matplotlib (1.0.1 or later)
- Traits, TraitsUI and Pyface (with WX backend), part of the and Enthought Tool Suite, version 4.0.0 or later.
- pytz
- Python Imaging Library (PIL)
- pyglet
- FFmpeg (to generate videos)
- AVbin (to load videos)
- Camera Python Package (for the LPM Camera modules)
There is a fully self-contained Windows installer for Spacetime, get it from the Spacetime website. The only external dependency is the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86).
There are no packages yet. Make sure the spacetime module is in your PYTHONPATH and run the included spacetime executable/script.
Copyright 2010-2014 Leiden University. Written by Sander Roobol
Spacetime is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.