Fluidimage submission

[paugier]

Submitting Author: Pierre Augier (@paugier)
All current maintainers: (@paugier)
Package Name: Fluidimage
One-Line Description of Package: "Fluidimage: a Python framework to study flows from images"
Repository Link: https://foss.heptapod.net/fluiddyn/fluidimage
Version submitted: 0.5.2
Editor: TBD
Reviewer 1: TBD
Reviewer 2: TBD
Archive: TBD
JOSS DOI: TBD
Version accepted: TBD
Date accepted (month/day/year): TBD

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FluidImage is a free and open-source Python framework to process images of fluids (in particular with PIV), and analyse the resulting fields.

Fluidimage has now grown into a clean software reimplementing in modern Python algorithms and ideas taken from UVmat, OpenPIV, PIVlab and PIVmat with a focus on performance, usability and maintanability. However, Fluidimage is not restricted to Particle Image Velocimetry computations (PIV, i.e. displacements of pattern obtained by correlations of cropped images) and can be used to (i) display and pre-process images, (ii) compute displacement or velocity fields with PIV, Background-Oriented Schlieren (BOS) and optical flow, and (iii) analyze and display vector and scalar fields.

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    The target audience is students, scientists, researchers and engineers working with images of fluids. Fluidimage can be used to process images, compute vectors and scalar fields and analyze them.

  • Are there other Python packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, how does yours differ?

    OpenPIV can be used to compute vectors with various PIV algorithms. Fluidimage is not restricted to PIV. It has a very different API than OpenPIV. Fluidimage has more focus on performance, with in particular compiled extensions produced with Transonic-Pythran and an asynchronous/parallel framework to describe "topologies" of computations and compute then in parallel.

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I tend to think that Fluidimage is not yet ready for a paper in JOSS. We need more time to get a stronger community and to implement few more features before submitting to JOSS.

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Note that Fluidimage development is done on https://foss.heptapod.net/fluiddyn/fluidimage and that issues have to be filled on this website. Pull requests are of course very welcome. Note that with Heptapod/Mercurial, one should not fork the repo to submit a PR (see https://fluiddyn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mercurial_heptapod.html).

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Editor comments

Hello @paugier, and welcome to pyOpenSci! Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, I have been sitting on these checks for a while now.
fluidimage is truly an interesting project, even from a code structure perspective. I never used mercurial, and I think it's a first for pyOpenSci in general. Same for the licence, never encountered it before!
I'll get started on finding an editor. Thank you for your patience.

[cmarmo]

Hello @paugier I'm Chiara, following up as editor in chief during those summer months.
I just want to let you know that you haven't been forgotten ... hope to find an editor for Fluidimage soon 🤞.