What’s new? Here are the highlights from the last seven days.
Strikes and dips and tadpoles — What tools would you recommend for working with structural data in boreholes? Lots to choose from, among them fractoolbox — as well as the wireline log and standard image processing libraries.
Geovisual — Speaking of interesting plots, some new visualization libraries came under the spotlight: one a d3.js library for ternary plots, and the other discussing pyrolite, a Python library for doing all sorts of geochemistry-related plots.
All the colours – Seismic interpreters have likely heard of spectral decomposition – the partitioning of seismic into three frequency bands that you can plot as RGB blended images. This work in progress uses a bag of different tools, some of which might get stitched closer together given the right motivation and use cases.
Thermal under-where? The World Geothermal Congress has been virtualized and spread out across several weeks, and the Swung-powered Geothermal Hackathon is starting to take shape. Chime in now to influence the agenda and help shape the happenings.
NetCDF to ipygany — I wrote about ipygany a couple of weeks ago, and here Wes is showing off how to take your NetCDFs and drop them right into the notebook environment.
No mouse clicks allowed — Lastly, In a heartwarming testament to the nature of our connection to science and software, John Armitage tells a short tale about the time he met a little library called GemPy and how it helped him build an earth model entirely out of code. No mouse clicks allowed! Sadly, external forces intervened and John had to build his model all over again using proprietary point-and-click software which worked of course… until it didn’t.
Stories like this remind us why reproducible science is the best science. If you have tales of open science glory — or woe! — consider sharing them in the Software Underground.