Installation

LoopStructural is supported and tested on Python 3.6+ and can be installed on Linux, Windows and Mac. We recommend installing LoopStructural into clean python environment. Either using anaconda or python virtual environments. There are three ways of installing LoopStructural onto your system:

Installing from pip or conda

pip install LoopStructural

conda install -c conda-forge -c loop3d loopstructural

Compiling LoopStructural from source

You can install the most recent version of LoopStructural by cloning it from GitHub. You will need to have a C/C++ development environment for compiling cython extensions.

If you are using a linux system you may need to install some dependencies for LavaVu.

sudo apt-get update  && sudo apt-get install python3 python3-venv python3-dev make pybind11-dev mesa-common-dev mesa-utils libgl1-mesa-dev gcc g++

git clone https://github.com/Loop3D/LoopStructural.git
cd LoopStructural
pip install .

Dependencies

Required dependencies:

• numpy

• pandas

• scipy

• scikit-image

• scikit-learn

Optional dependencies:

• matplotlib, 2D/3D visualisation

• LavaVu, 3D visualisation

• surfepy, radial basis interpolation

• map2loop, generation of input datasets from regional Australian maps

Docker

LoopStructural can be used either by compiling the docker image or by pulling the compiled docker image from docker hub.

docker pull loop3d/loopstructural
docker run -i -t -p 8888:8888 -v LOCALDIRPATH:/home/jovyan/shared_volume loop3d/loopstructural`.