Graphical User Interface 🪟

Development & New Ideas
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It would look like the python interface (though intuitive for most of users) is a barrier to some who don’t know how to code.

I’m open to start brainstorming what a graphical user interface (GUI) would look like for FESTIM.

A first attempt was done at LSPM while I was there with a team of CS students but it never got open-sourced and probably runs (if it runs) on a very old FESTIM version.

A few ideas:

  • The structure could be very similar to COMSOL/ANSYS:
    • Define the type of study (HydrogenTransport, HydrogenTransport + Heat transfer, etc.)
    • Define the geometry and mesh
    • Define materials
    • BCs
    • Traps,
    • Temperature
    • …
  • Potentially we could embed Paraview to be able to post-process the data inside the GUI
  • This could be an application running in the browser too. Steamlit? Plotly-dash?

Let’s use this topic for discussion around this and as a gauge for interest.

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We could use tools like Figma to design the UI

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We could use Trame to have embedded 3D visualisation!

Then offer the users the possibility to download files as VTX to open them in paraview for more control