README

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.

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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.  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
sjplimp@sandia.gov.  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