Python is becoming more established for scientific data analysis and processing, but what python instrument control options are there? For me the benchmark instrument control software has to be Lab...

Finding the centre of of a polygon can be useful for many geomtrical analysis and processing techniques. This quick guide shows you how to find the centre of a polygon in python. The Centroid The c...

I’ve been working with the Shapely python package in python. This is a short guide for how to merge polygons in python. This guide is based on “cascaded_union.py” in the shapely examples. Find out ...

I find Matlab great, and for the most part it is my go-to scientific software package. Unfortunately if you don’t have access to a license, or your license server connection isn’t so great, using M...

OOMMF can be incredibly useful for studying micromagnetic systems. Some calculations, however, can take an incredibly long time. Check out these tips for how to speed up OOMMF calculations. 1. Use ...

I spend quite a bit of time designing, viewing and reviewing 2d layout designs for lithographic masks. When I first started I found it difficult to navigate the many different layout design softwar...

Log your wordcount in Latex texlog.py is a simple python script for logging your wordcount in latex. The logging output put is saved as simple comma separated values which you can easily load into ...

Trapezoidal Decomposition Trapezoidal decomposition of polygons involves breaking a polygon into a series of smaller trapezoids. I’ve been working on a project - gds2ecp - to decompose lithography ...

How to work with OOMMF files in Matlab OOMMF can output both scalar and vector data. It’s easy enough to view this data using the built in programs in OOMMF, but what if you want to process or anal...

OOMMF on HPC HPC facilities can be very useful for speeding up OOMMF calculations, both in terms of number of cores you can throw at the problem, and the number of simultaneous calculations you can...